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Napping After Learning
Taking a nap after learning something can help your retention of it.
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Cats and sleep
On average, cats sleep for 2/3 of their life. This would mean that a 9 year old cat has been asleep for 6 years.
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Hypnic Jerk
When you wake up with a jolt, it's called a Hypnic Jerk. This usually happens during the lightest stages of sleep, and can happen as a natural reaction when you fall asleep in a car or airplane.
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Knocker-Up
Until the 1920s, there was a profession called 'knocker-up', which involved going from client to client and tapping on their windows (or banging on their doors) with long sticks until they woke up.
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Camping can help to reset your body clock, according to research.
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Pillow hugging while sleeping is a subconscious indication that you miss someone.
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A hippo sleeping underwater automatically rises to the surface every ~4 minutes and breathes without waking.
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Studies show that the colder the room you sleep in, the more likely you are to have a bad dream.
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