14 Mar 10 Learn something new no.6 – Sleep | #LearnSomethingNew

Humans spend one-third of their lives asleep. A newborn child in a family will provide its parents with 400-750 hours lost sleep by it’s first birthday. The current world record for tsleeplessness is 11 days. This was set by an American, seventeen year old student in 1965 called Randy Gardner.

On some associated research:

• Heavy snorers get less sex.
• Rats deprived of sleep will die before those starved of food.
• Humans start yawning as foetuses 11 weeks after conception.
• Pythons require about 18 hours of sleep per day.