TRIVIA TODAY - Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Greetings Infomaniacs,

What is something that everyone loves to do but most of us don't do enough? SLEEP! It seems like with so much going on in life - work, school, family, social outings - that sleep often gets shoved aside.

I find that I get in bed ready for a night of slumber, but I can't settle down and my brain keeps going back over the day. It's so hard to relax my mind and just fall asleep!

Oh well. Enjoy these fun facts about sleep!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to."

HINT: (1896-1940), was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age.


RANDOM TIDBITS
On average, humans sleep three hours less than other primates. Chimps, rhesus monkeys, and baboons sleep ten hours per night.

When we sleep, we drift between rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep and non-REM sleep in alternating 90-minute cycles.

Elephants stand while they're dozing in non-REM sleep, but once REM sleep kicks in, they lie down. Ducks are constantly at risk of being attacked by predators, so they keep half their brain awake while they sleep.

Studies have shown that our bodies experience diminished capacity after we've been awake for 17 hours, and we behave as if we were legally drunk.

At least 10 percent of all people sleepwalk at least once in their lives, and men are more likely to sleepwalk than women.

During their first year, babies cause between 400 and 750 hours of lost sleep for parents.


*** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***
My first three letters are a term in golf,
While my second, third, and fourth are drawings.
My first four are less than a whole,
And all of me is a celebration.

What am I?

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to."

ANSWER: F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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