Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with.

Between Friday evening and Sunday afternoon people are in a better mood and experience fewer aches and pains.

A team of psychologists tracked 74 regularly employed men and women for three weeks, paging them three times a day to check in. With each page, the subjects answered questions pertaining to their feelings and general well-being. Not only do people feel better mentally and physically on the weekend, they feel more competent.

The study's authors found this "weekend effect" exists no matter what a person's job title is. They believe that it is due to the greater autonomy humans feel when they aren't tethered to the rules and structure of the workplace.

Of course this study likely doesn't apply to clowns, since they usually have to work weekends and always feel dead inside.