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STRANGE BUT TRUE by Samantha Weaver
● It was Scottish novelist and politician John Buchan who made the following sage observation: “We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.” ● If you happen to have 40 billion Lego bricks lying around, you could, theoretically, build a tower to the moon.
• A pregnant woman will generally sleep up to two hours a night longer than she did before she got pregnant. • Newborns sleep a total of 14 to 17 hours a day on an irregular schedule with periods of one to three hours spent awake. • Although it’s possible to force yourself to stay awake, it is impossible to force yourself to stay asleep. The longest recorded sleep period was 17 hours by a person who had been deprived of sleep in the prior few days. He was able to sleep only 5 hours the next night. • A survey showed that people who characteristically get ten hours of sleep suffered twice as many heart attacks and three and a half times as many strokes as people who slept seven hours or less.
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• Two experimenters spent two months living in the darkness of Mammoth Cave in Kentucky in 1938. For the first month they lived 21-hour days using electric lights; and for the second month they lived 28-hour days. Although the men felt that they had adjusted to the new schedule, their bodies showed through blood and urine tests and temperature readings that they were still operating on a 24-hour cycle. • People who are transferred to the perpetual night of the Arctic tend to sleep about an hour longer than they did prior to going there. • One experiment placed volunteers alone in a completely dark sound-proof room, with gloves to reduce sensations. The object was to see how much time a human would spend sleeping when there was absolutely nothing to do. On the first day, the subjects slept 12 to 14 hours. But as time passed, the amount of sleep decreased until after one week they were sleeping six hours or less each day. This suggested to researchers that wakefulness is the basic state of the brain. (continued next page)
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of helicopters have been trained to peck a switch whenever they see the colors orange, yellow, or red. The helicopters then fly over the ocean in areas where planes or ships have gone down. When a pigeon spots orange life vests, yellow rafts, or red flares, they peck the signal and are rewarded with food. Pigeons score 90% every time, compared to only 40% for humans. • Some types of birds such as warblers and kingfishers will build nests next to a wasp or hornet nest to help ward off predators. • Eleven different species of birds in Britain learned how to remove the tin foil and cardboard caps on milk bottles left on porches and doorsteps so they could help themselves to a free meal. They also followed milkmen on their routes. • A type of bird called a black kite which lives in India is known as a “fire hawk” because of its habit of picking up burning twigs from fires, then dropping them into dry grass in order to flush small animals which flee from the resulting fire. • Penguins return to the very same nest year after year, building it up with new stones in a ring. When they return to their nesting grounds each year, the old nest will be buried under several feet of snow. Still, the penguins immediately begin to pile up stones on top of the snow. When the snow melts, the new stones will settle exactly on top of the old. • Observers watching peregrine falcons have seen them teaming up to teach their young how to catch prey on the wing. One parent, carrying prey, will fly above the offspring while the other flies below the offspring. The prey is dropped, and if the youngster fails to nab it as it falls, the parent below will catch it. The two parents will then switch places and continue dropping the prey until Junior catches on. • Researchers once put a shearwater (a bird that migrates from Pole to Pole) into a dark box and released it in Britain 3,000 miles from its home. The bird found its way back to its home nest in 12 days— flying across open ocean at a rate of 250 miles per day.
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• Ten per cent of snorers have sleep apnea, a disorder which causes sufferers to stop breathing up to 300 times a night. This significantly increases the risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke. Sleep apnea will almost always cause patients to snore, but snoring won’t always cause sleep apnea. Being overweight increases the risk for sleep apnea. About 33% of those who drink four or more caffeinated beverages daily are designated at risk for sleep apnea. • Snoring can become worse after drinking alcohol. Alcohol has a direct depressant effect on the tongue and other muscles in the throat, which narrows the upper airway space. • Nasal congestion caused by allergies and colds can lead to snoring. • There are over 300 U.S. patents on devices to prevent snoring and over 2,000 European patents. • The word “snore” once meant the same as “snort.” Shakespeare was the first to use the word denoting human snoring during sleep. • People who share a bed with snorers have their sleep interrupted an average of 21 times a night compared to an average of 27 times per night for the snorer. • It has been claimed that Italians snore more than any other European nationality. • Singing on a regular basis decreases snoring because it strengthens throat muscles. • When advice columnist “Dear Abby” ran a letter from a woman requesting help with her husband’s snoring problem, Abby asked readers for advice. She was swamped with over 150,000 letters. • Winston Churchill snored at the 35 decibel level, as measured by a naval officer on board a ship in August, 1944. • President Theodore Roosevelt once snored so loudly in the hospital that nearly every patient in the wing complained.
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• Harry Christy of Lewiston, Idaho was elected Idaho’s snoring champion in September 1944 at the Veterans Hospital in Boise. He won out over W.H. Gilman of Twin Falls, who had held the title for 17 years. Judges said Gilman’s snoring had become “too jerky” to retain the title. • According to a Baltimore newspaper, a 300-lb. cabbie went to sleep in his cab after working all night. He snored so loudly that he attracted a crowd. A cop tried to wake him, to no avail. By the time he awakened, there were reportedly several hundred people watching him snore away. • Travis Zellis was in jail in Cincinnati, serving a 90-day sentence for burglary. Soon after his imprisonment, jailers began receiving complaints from other prisoners who couldn’t sleep at night due to his profound snoring. Zellis was released early so the other prisoners could get some sleep.
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Hawkeye Publishing, L.L.C. www.tidbitpapers.com For Distribution E-mail: russ@tidbitpapers.com or Call (319) 360-3936 PAW’S CORNER By Sam Mazzotta
Learning Pet CPR DEAR PAW’S CORNER: Several years ago, I lost one of my dogs, “Corny,” to a sudden illness when he collapsed and stopped breathing. Not sure what to do, I rushed him to the nearby vet’s office, but they were unable to revive him. From that incident, I resolved never to feel so helpless if it should happen to one of my pets again. I learned the basics of pet CPR from that vet, and have since taken online courses to learn more and to stay up to date on changes in performing pet CPR. I urge every pet owner to become familiar with CPR for pets, whether their dog or cat or other pet is young or old. -- Janine C., Chattanooga, Tennessee
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