You Actually Can Die Of Boredom At Work..Sort Of

You can actually be bored to death, turns out. According to a recent study from the International Journal of Epidemiology, bored people are two and a half more times likely to die of a heart problem than non-bored folks.

Some caveats: The researchers asked workers in the 1980s to self-report workplace boredom, and they didn’t follow up with the workers until 2009—when they found out how many had died. So the Grim Reaper of Boredom takes a long time to catch up with you.

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