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Why is the day after Thanksgiving called "Black Friday"?

This is a random bit of trivia, but why the heck do they call the day after Thanksgiving "black friday"? Seems kinda racist to me, but I'm sure I am thinking about it wrong......

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What is tryptophan?

Having just eaten a huge turkey dinner for Thanksgiving, I'm sitting lazily by my computer and wondering why turkey always makes me sleepy. I've heard that there's something called triptofan (tryptofan? tryptophan?) in turkey that does this, but I'm skeptical. What's the scoop, Dave?...

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