{"id":12094,"date":"2012-07-06T07:44:40","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T14:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=12094"},"modified":"2012-11-01T22:37:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T05:37:34","slug":"15-quick-sleep-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/15-quick-sleep-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Quick Sleep Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. People getting only 6 to 7 hours of sleep every night have a longer life expectancy than those who sleep 8 hours.<\/li>\n
  2. Both whales and dolphins literally fall half asleep. Their brain hemispheres take turns so they can continue surfacing to breathe<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  3. The world record for not sleeping was set by 17-year-old Randy Gardner in 1964 when he was awake for 264 hours and 12 minutes.<\/li>\n
  4. An adult bedbug can survive up to one year without feeding.<\/li>\n
  5. In 2004, more than 35 million sleeping pill prescriptions were filled in America, a number that more than doubled from the previous four years.<\/li>\n
  6. Although people born blind don\u2019t see images when they dream<\/a>, they do have an increased auditory, tactile, and olfactory experience<\/li>\n
  7. Scientists haven’t been able to figure out why exactly we need sleep.<\/li>\n
  8. Somniphobia is the fear of sleep.<\/li>\n
  9. 12% of people have black and white dreams. Before color television though, the number was 75%.<\/li>\n
  10. Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty is a surgical procedure used to fix snoring by tightening the throat. Possible side effects include changes to the tone of your voice.<\/li>\n
  11. When you die, you will have slept about 1\/3 of your life, which for the average person is approximately 25 years.<\/li>\n
  12. Not sleeping for 16 hours leads to a decrease in performance equivalent to having a blood alcohol level of .05%<\/li>\n
  13. Every 90 minutes, during REM sleep, a burst of electrical activity flows through your brainstem which also happens to be when you experience dreams.<\/li>\n
  14. The average person spends 6 years of their life dreaming.<\/li>\n
  15. That moment right before you fall asleep when all of a sudden you jolt wide awake has a name \u2013 it\u2019s called a myoclonic jerk.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Note: This is a guest post contributed by List25.com. People getting only 6 to 7 hours of sleep every night have a longer life expectancy than those who sleep 8 hours. Both whales and dolphins literally fall half asleep. Their brain hemispheres take turns so they can continue surfacing to breathe. The world record for not sleeping was set by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":12095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3018],"tags":[2822],"class_list":["post-12094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-facts_lists","tag-sleep-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12094"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12097,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12094\/revisions\/12097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}