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Unbelievable facts about sleep

Sleeping is one of my favourite pastimes, so I’ve rounded up a few of the most unbelievable facts about sleeping for everyone’s enjoyment…

1. Think you want to have kids? Well maybe this will put you off: A new baby will result in around 400-750 hours of lost sleep for the parents in the first year alone.

2. You think that staying up all night after a long day is tough? If your anything like me your asleep five minutes after sitting on the couch. So its quite remarkable that the word record for the longest period without sleep is a staggering 18 days, 12 hours and 490 minutes during a rocking chair marathon. The exhausted winner reported hallucinations, paranoia, blurred vision, slurred speech and memory and concentration lapses.

3. For many years British Ministry of Defence researchers have used a system that resents a soldier’s body clock so that they can go without sleep for up to 36 hours. The system involves tiny optical fibres that are embedded inside a pair of goggles. The fibres project a ring of bright light with the same spectrum as a sunrise around the soldier’s retina fooling then in to believing they have just woken up.

4. How often have you forgotten to do something when you’re tired? You’re not the only one. The 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off the coast of Alaska, the challenger space shuttle disaster and the Chernobyl nuclear accident have all been blamed on human error due to sleep deprivation.

5. How long do you sleep for? The NHS recommend at least 8 hours sleep a night, but on average we sleep up to three hours less that other primates including, chimps, rhesus monkeys and baboons who all sleep for ten hours.

6. If you snore you can keep your partner wide awake for hours, but what you may not realise is that ten percent of snorers suffer from sleep apnoea, a disorder that causes the sufferer to stop breathing up to 300 times a night, significantly increasing the chance of a heart attack or stroke.

7. Put the mouse down, and step away from the keyboard… According to research, 18 to 24 years olds kept awake for long periods are actually far more impaired than older people kept awake for the same length of time. Experts claim this is down to the internet’s 24/7 accessibility.

Sleeptight.

Tags: sleeping, Unbelievable facts

Todays Weird news: Monkeys, Sheep, Rednecks and the Butt Bandit

Every so often I read some weird stories that you can’t help laugh at, here are a few of the best from today.

What an arse

I laughed when I heard today that some dude from Nebraska, affectionately known as the “Butt Bandit” has been put in the one place you shouldn’t expose your rear – jail…

The 35 year old was given a 13 and a half month sentence after he exposed his flabby cheeks no less than eight times last year.

Monkey Business

A women tried to smuggle a monkey down her top on a flight from Thailand to LA after pretending she was pregnant, however she was busted and has been convicted with smuggling.

What’s worrying about this is that the woman, accompanied by her mother, managed to smuggle the primate through the ‘top notch’ Los Angeles customs.

Amazingly the monkey smuggler was busted when she explained her daring act to a clothing store assistant. The monkey is now living in a primate rescue centre in Oregon.

Baaaad luck

A mechanic who repairs tractors for a living has had his £275,000 workshop burned to the ground by a sheep.

Yes…a sheep.

The man said that a sheep from a nearby paddock broke a waterline to a pressure pump in his workshop, causing the pump to run dry, overheat then catch fire.
He told the paper: “My whole life is tied up in this business, not only my ability to earn a living. It’s left a huge hole which is indescribable.”

Dumb Ass commits crime, tries to escape. Fails.

Every good criminal knows that you should really run as far away from the police after you’ve committed a crime, but one complete dumbass decided to hide in the local Police Academy.

The man robbed a petrol station in Ohio with his mate before fleeing in a pick-up truck (what else). A police officer saw the vehicle and pulled it over only for the passenger to make a run for it. Unfortunately for him he ran right up to the Academy, and after coming face to face with a locked door, surrendered like a sissy girl. His hapless mate surrendered without a fight.

“That is a little comical,” said Columbus police Sgt. Greg Bodker.

“One of the officers was directly behind the suspect who fled on foot so I don’t believe he would have gotten in there, but he did get to the porch and attempt to open the doors.”

What a tool.

Tags: Funny, nudity, stupidity, Weird