Lack of sleep is similar to being drunk

 

Being awake for seventeen hours without sleep gives you the same decrease in performance and reaction time as having a blood alcohol-level of 0.05%, or around 4 standard drinks.
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The symptoms of insomnia

• Have trouble falling asleep. This can mean lying in bed for up to an hour or more, tossing and turning, waiting to fall asleep.
• Wake up during the night and have trouble going back to sleep.
• Wake up too early in the morning.
• Feel tired when they wake up, like they didn't get enough sleep.
• Feel grouchy, sleepy, or anxious, and be unable to get things done during the daytime.

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Humans don't just shrink with age. WE shrink EVERY DAY.

Humans shrink and regain height daily, sometimes as much as 3/4 of an inch in one day. When we move throughout the day, the fluid disks in in our spinal column compress and we shrink. When we rest at night our backbones reabsorb the fluid and our height comes back.
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When you sleep, you grow by about 8mm (0.3in). The next day you shrink back to your former height.

When you sleep, you grow by about 8mm (0.3in). The next day you shrink back to your former height. The reason is that your cartilage discs are squeezed like sponges by the force of gravity when you stand or sit.
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A man wakes after 21 hours in morgue fridge

A South African man awoke to find himself in a morgue fridge — nearly a day after his family thought he had died, a health official said Monday.
Health department spokesman Sizwe Kupelo said the man awoke Sunday afternoon, 21 hours after his family called in an undertaker who sent him to the morgue after an asthma attack.

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Women and Men Heartbeat fact

The main reason for this is simply that on average women tend to be smaller than men and have less mass to pump blood to. But women’s and men’s hearts can actually act quite differently, especially when experiencing trauma like a heart attack, and many treatments that work for men must be adjusted or changed entirely to work for women.
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A woman in China partially lost her hearing after her boyfriend reportedly ruptured her eardrum with a passionate kiss.

A woman in China partially lost her hearing after her boyfriend reportedly ruptured her eardrum with a passionate kiss. Apparently, the kiss reduced the pressure in the mouth, pulled the eardrum out, and caused the breakdown of the ear.

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Mysophilia

Mysophilia relates to soiled or dirty material or people. Mysophiliacs may find dirt, soiled underwear, feces, or vomit to be sexually arousing.
It is possible (although not required) for persons with mysophilia to be aroused by unclean locales, such as an alleyway, or a dirty room/bathroom; wearing the same clothing for many days at a time; or not bathing, from mere days to several weeks.Tweet

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The Origin of the S WORD

'Shit' originated as the acronym of 'Ship High in Transit,'

Ever wonder where the word "shit" comes from. Well here it is:
Certain types of manure used to be transported (as everything was back then) by ship. In dry form it weighs a lot less, but once water (at sea) hit it. It not only became heavier, but the process of fermentation began again, of which a by-product is methane gas.
As the stuff was stored below decks in bundles you can see what could (and did) happen; methane began to build up below decks and the first time someone came below at night with a lantern. BOOOOM!
Several ships were destroyed in this manner before it was discovered what was happening.
After that, the bundles of manure where always stamped with the term "S.H.I.T" on them which meant to the sailors to "Ship High In Transit." In other words, high enough off the lower decks so that any water that came into the hold would not touch this volatile cargo and start the production of methane.

 

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Leaving your bed unmade has its benefits

Research suggests that while an unmade bed may look scruffy it is also unappealing to house dust mites thought to cause asthma and other allergies.  A Kingston University study has conclude the bugs cannot survive in the warm, dry conditions found in an unmade bed. 



To put in a short sentence! Making up your bed is like saying " Hey bed bugs, make yourself at home!! "


The average bed could be home to up to 1.5 million house dust mites.
The bugs, which are less than a millimetre long, feed on scales of human skin and produce allergens which are easily inhaled during sleep.
The warm, damp conditions created in an occupied bed are ideal for the creatures, but they are less likely to thrive when moisture is in shorter supply.  

FYI: Bed bugs cause this type of damage to the human skin, photo below.



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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4181629.stm

10 TWITTER FACTS

10. FIRST PERSON TO JOIN TWITTER

Hey! was it a He or She? What did he/she do on twitter after joining twitter?. Can’t guess !..never mind because I am going to divulge to you folks the first ever person to set foot, not on the moon but Twitter and he was JACK DORSEY(founder) and he was also the first one to send twitter message on his profile. Luck man he is, isn’t he ?. He was the first person to be the part of the world’s famous social organization nowadays.

9. INITIAL INCOME OF TWITTER AS A COMPANY

Twitter was founded in 2006 and as you all know that it is nowadays a very well-reputed and marvelous social networking package, so what do you think its initial revenue will be? Yeah I know that guessing such a behemoth amount will not be an easy task to do for you. Ok let me tell you this and the answer to this mystery is that for that first three years of its operations Twitter generated a total revenue of $1,000,000,000. Wait ! how about removing that ‘1’ before those zeroes. Yup here you go guys. You got it right and Twitter made not even a single penny during the first 3 years of its operations.

8. FREQUENCY OF TWEETS IN TWITTER

How many times can you possibly blink your eye in a second? Well to reflect something or some event as to occur very fast or rapidly we use the term “in a blink of an eye”. May be it is 5 times a second or to quote it more optimistically let us take it to be 7 times a second. But can you just imagine the number of Tweets per second. Nah ! it is not even near to your thinking as the average tweets per second are as many as 750 tweets per second. Well I guess we have got something to replace our old-used phrase and the new one should be “in a blink of a tweet”.

7. TWEETS THAT CONSTITUTE MOST OF THE OVERALL PERCENTAGE OF TWEETS

Man love to interact and finds for himself excuses to talk to others. The category of maximum number of tweets are conspicuous of this statement. What can it be? Any major event or something very ordinary to our lives. It is just “I am having lunch” and this tweet constitute over 40% of total tweets.

6. ORIGINAL NAME OF TWITTER

The name being used nowadays was not the original name for this social networking program. But it did resemble with the current name “TWITTER”. It was “TWTTR”. It was inspired by the fact the short codes being used in America are 5 characters.

5. THE FIRST DAY WHEN TWITTER WAS BEING RUN

Definitely, the first day of twitter was indeed linked to some special occasion of some special person of the organization. The Beta test version of Twitter was launched on the birthday of the CEO Even Williams.
4. MEN OR WOMEN
Men are more socializing than women. Women tend to talk to more in contrast to most men, although some men do talk a lot. Which segment of the society can it possibly be? Well guys happy or not they are the talkative ones. Yes, women constitute over 55% of the Twitter users where men lies in an area of 45%.

3. SOURCE OF TRAFFIC COMING TO TWITTER

You will be very astonished to know that not most of the traffic coming to twitter is from twitter.com rather it is from third party applications like TweetDeck, Twitterrific and Tweetie etc. These third party applications comprise over 75% of the incoming traffic to twitter.

2. IF TWITTER WERE A COUNTRY

Just imagine of the gigantic size of the Twitter organization with over more than 105,779,710 registered users. Statistics claim that if Twitter were a country then it would be 12th largest population country. It is amazing !

1. SOCIAL CLASS USING TWITTER

Rich people have got many other tasks to keep them riveted. They can go surfing, dining out most of the week days and do other expensive enjoyments to fulfill their social needs. But you will be amazed to learn that according to authentic sources, 30% of households of each family is more than $100,000.
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http://www.tiptoptens.com/2011/04/11/10-things-you-might-not-know-about-twitter-facts/

10 best excuses when you get caught falling asleep on your desk

10. "They told me at the blood bank this might happen."

9. "This is just a 15 minute power-nap like they raved about in
that time management course you sent me to."

8. "Whew! Guess I left the top off the White-Out. You probably
got here just in time!"

7. "I wasn't sleeping! I was meditating on the mission statement
and envisioning a new paradigm."

6. "I was testing my keyboard for drool resistance."

5. "I was doing a highly specific Yoga exercise to relieve
work-related stress. Are you discriminatory toward people who
practice Yoga?"

4. "Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out a
solution to our biggest problem."

3. "The coffee machine is broken..."

2. "Someone must've put decaf in the wrong pot..."

And the #1 best thing to say if you get caught sleeping at your
desk...

1. " ... in Jesus' name. Amen."

If you touch your tongue while yawning it can stop the yawn

If you touch your tongue while yawning, it can stop the yawn mainly because your tongue is the most sensitive thing on your body.

Lick your lips whenever you feel a yawn coming on.
Seriously, it works. Now you'll be needing some practice to be able to this when it matters. You won't automatically lick your lips when you feel like yawning.
We know that yawning is contagious. So for practice, I'm giving you a link to a yawning video. Watch the video and whenever you feel like yawning, start licking your lips.
http://www.dontyawngame.com/

A way you can tell if you're whispering or not is to put your hand at your throat

A way you can tell if you're whispering or not is to put your hand at your throat. If you feel vibrations, you're talking. If you don't, you're whispering.

The World’s Most Expensive Toy

The most valuable toy soldier in the world is the first handcrafted 1963 G.I. Joe prototype, sold in 2003 for $200,000 to Baltimore businessman Stephen A. Geppi . [Guinness World record book]