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john Said,
May 23rd, 2008 @9:14 pm  

Did you also know that the crayfish is the only invertebrate capable of sustaining a groin pull?

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Tod Said,
May 23rd, 2008 @10:17 pm  

Thats B.S.! I have gone 30 days without sleep. You get a little hinky after that but…

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ms Said,
May 23rd, 2008 @10:25 pm  

OK, so where’s the evidence of dying from lack of sleep? You say you can’t survive without sleep and yet we have a young boy who hasn’t slept in three years that was just in the news. PLus though I’ve heard of death from exhaustion, not so far from sleep loss.

If you cant’ “survive” then I guess you’d die right? And yet you dont’ mention how many days or whatever, you just talk abotu hallucinations, which most of us are aware of, but they don’t kill you. How about some bolder more factual statments under that entry.

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beck Said,
May 24th, 2008 @3:48 am  

attn: ms

if you can die from exhaustion, than wouldn’t lack of sleep be the same thing?

if you did not sleep, you’d be exhasuted.

way to go there, champ.

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mayday Said,
May 24th, 2008 @6:20 am  

that kid did not sleep since he was born.. so he is obviously not normal… I found this.. proves that lacking of sleep will kill you

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1690

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Pat Said,
May 24th, 2008 @10:05 pm  

Everyone knows the Philtrum is there to allow air into the beer bottle while you drink.

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Ian Said,
May 24th, 2008 @10:20 pm  

I guess “angle lust” must’ve been what happened in geometry…

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Guinness Said,
May 25th, 2008 @7:04 am  

For those who SWEAR to the truth of these marathon-insomniacs, please submit them as an entry into our upcoming book. Thanks!

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not tod Said,
May 25th, 2008 @8:10 pm  

Yeah flipping right Tod!

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JG Said,
May 26th, 2008 @12:18 am  

1) The dying from lack of sleep thing is ludicrous - cite your sources please.
2) If you’re going to publish something like this, for all of us to read, PLEASE check your grammar. Parts of this story were hard to read because of the mistakes.

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Kate Said,
May 26th, 2008 @7:06 pm  

You can certainly die from lack of sleep. It is just not that common because the brain usually forces itself into a resting mode before shutting down completely.
Dont rule anything out obnoxiously in commentary before you check your facts.

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Roger Said,
May 27th, 2008 @4:06 am  

Without sleep, you do something dumb without thinking — like try to drive home. You get a couple miles down the road, fall asleep at the wheel, the car goes straight and veers into the path of an oncoming big rig truck.
If you’re not so lucky, you wake up as a quadriplegic.
If you’re lucky, you end up dead. So yeah, lack of sleep can definitely kill you.

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Phoebe Chin Said,
May 27th, 2008 @7:11 am  

haha nice one Pat

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Phil Monroe Said,
May 27th, 2008 @4:07 pm  

Lack of sleep will kill you, it’s just that 99.9% of the time you just fall asleep. Now, being forced to stay awake with loud music, temperature extremes, stress positions, that will lead to death. (and that is why it is torture)

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EL Said,
May 27th, 2008 @4:36 pm  

I can’t give the exact details but when I was at college the standard study was Jouvet’s artificial island to show that without REM sleep cats go mad and then die. It took about 2 weeks I think.

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georger Said,
May 27th, 2008 @8:48 pm  

there’s only one way your brain rests and its called REM-sleep (when you dream). if you dont get rem you go crazy and your brain goes dead in a couple of weeks.
you dont trust me? dont be lazy. look for medical sites or some i-magazines related to medicine or dreaming.
thank you

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Greg Said,
May 28th, 2008 @6:33 pm  

The boy who has been awake for three years is a sham. Yes, he hasn’t “gone to bed” per say, but his brain does shut down involuntarily, allowing the necessary rest.

It’s a documented fact that Albert Einstein was borderline insane. He had a similar condition: he would only sleep for about an hour a night his entire adult life. He said he couldn’t sleep because his brain never stopped thinking. He also forgot to wear his socks often and frequently forgot his own address and how to get home; his secretary had to give him directions numerous times.

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Kortnee Said,
May 29th, 2008 @6:44 pm  

Tod. You’re full of crap. So I hope you were only issuing a painful attempt at being humorous.

The Times reports that: “The Guinness previous record was for 11½ days, or 276 hours, and was set by Toimi Soini in Hamina, Finland, between February 5 to 15, 1964.” However, Soini’s record was removed from the Guinness Book of Records in 1989. “It was deleted on the grounds that it could encourage records harmful to health and was unverifiable because of the claims of insomnia sufferers.”

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germaine Said,
June 4th, 2008 @11:00 pm  

I told my friend yu get a erection even when yu die but can u still “bust”while yur died

-germaine a.k.a fresh_kiid13

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PERCE-NEIGE Said,
June 7th, 2008 @10:35 am  

First, excuse my approximate English. Yes! We can die from a lack of sleeping. The experiment have been made with animals. The immunity, the nervous system, the brain control upon hormon system are strongly weakened, and it may causes death within a period depending on the person until the system is exhausted. The sleep duration is less important than its quality. If you’ve got a quality relaxation during the sleep, are able to deeply relax during the daytime in order to renew your nervous energy stock, and depending on the structure of your sleeping phases, you may bypass some rest nights. Sure, it’s possible to have a large sleep debt and some individuals may be able to enter in a phase where their brain does the work it does during night, while awaken, but it is very scarce I think.

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June 11th, 2008 @5:43 am  

The most amazing one is that you can survive without most of your organs…. not saying quality of life would be very high though.

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Alan Said,
June 16th, 2008 @12:34 am  

The philtrum is well known simbol to women
cant really tell you as it is secret ———
only for women to know. all I can say is it’s a good benefactor and sacrid for it’s purpose.we know are the sentients of life.(sorry)

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some_dude Said,
June 19th, 2008 @2:32 pm  

are you kidding ! 30 days without sleep???

were you in Comma or something !!!

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June 23rd, 2008 @3:07 pm  

This was great. I love that the human body still amazes me.

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Chetan Said,
June 25th, 2008 @8:20 pm  

Really interesting facts about our body, which are leser known..THANKS

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July 3rd, 2008 @4:33 am  

i really liked yur facs and pcs. even though i already knew #9!!!! nice job!!!!!!! ^_^

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August 3rd, 2008 @11:05 am  

aw that´s just impossible ! you´d be going nuts after 15 days!

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August 28th, 2008 @2:06 pm  

An interesting list of facts about the body. Thanks. Some of them are gross, but hey people are pretty gross.

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Kiefer Said,
September 1st, 2008 @4:17 pm  

Ok, i have some issues with #8. If hair is so indestructible where the hell is mine going ?

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David, London Said,
November 7th, 2008 @7:09 pm  

6 doesn’t add up.

It says we lose 300m cells a minute, which is less than 0.0001% of the cells replaced every day.

Since a minute is 1/1440th of a day, the figure per minute should be about 0.07% of the cells we lose per day.

It still out by a factor of 10 if the original comment is per second.

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Stephanie Said,
November 12th, 2008 @6:17 am  

The philtrum is a sort of seam in your facial structure. When a fetus is in the womb, different parts of the face are formed and then fused together. Some people have cleft palates or lips because the two sides of their mouth never properly joined together, or didn’t finish in time. Between your nose and mouth is one place where different pieces of flesh connect.

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leisa mcpherson Said,
November 18th, 2008 @6:14 pm  

This is a awsome website it realy helps you when you are in college

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leisa mcpherson Said,
November 18th, 2008 @6:16 pm  

Great website

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Oyster Said,
December 4th, 2008 @5:48 pm  

ur bs.. its immposible to go without sleep for a month and survive…how about i say i went without sleep for 1 year and i m here replying

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Mason Neighbor Said,
January 13th, 2009 @4:24 pm  

i hope u all know that you are all retarted and know that sleep isnt part of the human body its a fact of life and sleep isnt need thats why god made coffee and sugar for the people like me in the world who get no sleep

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Tourist Said,
February 18th, 2009 @6:49 am  

OH MY GOD this list was so creepy, I don’t know if I feel comfortable in my own skin anymore.

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wadan Said,
March 2nd, 2009 @5:15 pm  

thanks

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alan Said,
March 23rd, 2009 @4:13 am  

Blood falling by gravity thats an interesting fact. With so much of the body made up of water. It has to go somewhere.

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interestedguy Said,
March 23rd, 2009 @6:51 pm  

how do you know that kid never slept? because if everyone else did…he could have coincidentally been sleeping at the same time you were. hmmm think about it lol

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rainne pascual Said,
April 19th, 2009 @7:06 am  

.. it’s an interesting fact about a human body,, can’t believe our body has so much ability?!? ..

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aljon Said,
April 22nd, 2009 @11:56 am  

did you know that the cleanest animal/animals in land is the PIG????
yah..according to what i’ve watched..

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June 3rd, 2009 @1:45 pm  

Thanks for taking the time to discuss this, I feel strongly about it and love learning more on this topic. If possible, as you gain expertise, would you mind updating your blog with more information? It is extremely helpful and beneficial to your readers :)

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Marsha Said,
June 11th, 2009 @12:28 am  

I think too many people are crapping they’re pants over the fact that if you don’t get enough sleep you can die. It IS true that you can die from lack of sleep. Deal with it people- and whoever said they went a month without sleeping, I just don’t believe you… I bet you must have fallen asleep without knowing it; if you don’t sleep for a certain amount of time you start falling asleep for mere seconds without even knowing it.

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Shanell Said,
June 12th, 2009 @3:33 pm  

First of all everyone, you can too die from lack of sleep. The brain doesn’t need to rest, it acctually works harder while sleeping. You can get your physical rest from only relaxing, you DO NOT need sleep to rest physically. However, you do need sleep to rest mentally. Sure I said your brain works harder while sleeping, but its acctually sorting out your entire day, memories, and other human like figures. This is why you would die from lack of sleep. You would go totally insane and not be able to comprehend anything, look at Einstien!

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Harlem Said,
June 12th, 2009 @3:35 pm  

Wow-Shanell, you are so right, and I can’t believe you know that, how old are you?

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Kate Said,
June 25th, 2009 @3:13 pm  

And there are many other things about humand body, we even don’t know.

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darwin Said,
July 18th, 2009 @5:52 pm  

Holly crap number 10 really? To be completely honest I am
Greek and I prefer tits than the philtrum when I look at a woman :P I think the rest of the guys also focus in other areas as well :)

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king khan Said,
July 20th, 2009 @12:09 pm  

many of the people belive life after death

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Chetan Choudhary Said,
July 23rd, 2009 @1:42 pm  

i like it and it was totally dedicated to the topic.

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john hankinstien Said,
July 25th, 2009 @4:59 pm  

i think it was really crapy siite thanks :)

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August 7th, 2009 @4:25 am  

Interesting post…

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October 21st, 2009 @11:37 am  

hey honey im home

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Simon Said,
October 27th, 2009 @10:20 am  

Funny how men can have trouble getting erections while alive but not after death apparently. I guess there’s hope for all of us.

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dankwah Said,
January 14th, 2010 @1:31 pm  

avearage heart beat per dy is hundred thounsand times

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angela Said,
January 15th, 2010 @9:56 pm  

wow you cant not sleep for 2 years its impossible get real lady

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Yona Said,
January 21st, 2010 @12:57 am  

Great facts! The human body is truly amazing. To me, it’s interesting that a baby has 300 bones and the number of cells dying in one day is pretty intriguing. I also like the hair fact.

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kenz Said,
February 8th, 2010 @3:46 pm  

I think this stuff is sooooooo interesting! like i mean wowzerz!!!!!!!!!! I could read this stuff for hours man! I mean I feelz for the people and all but these stories are narly dude!!!!!!!!!!! I LOvE CalII!

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blahblahblah Said,
February 20th, 2010 @7:40 pm  

wow.
Did you know;
that your eyelashes are held on by tiny bugs,
and when they die the eyelash falls out.
Its true.
Was on the discovery channel.
Look it up.

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parwati Said,
February 24th, 2010 @3:53 pm  

that not so shocking dat we dye if we lay down we cant sleep for 5 min

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Norel Said,
February 25th, 2010 @9:02 pm  

Wow! This is a very interesting stuff to learn. And it amazing and you can read for hours.

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emmely ramirez Said,
March 10th, 2010 @6:35 pm  

i my gosh daz nastttty

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Analogkid Said,
March 13th, 2010 @3:35 am  

Ok, the sleep thing. Boy, some of you guys just want to jump the gun on that and cruxify the fact. Listen up, and all shall be made clear:

Even the average insomniac have short bursts of sleep. It may not be complete full REM sleep, but it’s like a power nap for you laymens. If you go about 11 days of full wakeness with NO naps, not short sleeps, your body shuts down to the point of possible death. The news of records of no sleep often refer to microsleep, which is usually not remembered by the individual as it lasts from a fraction of a second to several seconds, but that’s not the point. The point is the AVERAGE person. There are exceptions, no doubt. But I tell you what. Try it to see if you can last longer than 11 days. See if you don’t suffer from major issues such as liver malfunction, delirium, time loss, memory loss, etc. It amazes me how quick you all try to shoot something down before you thoroughly investigate all the available info. We’re talking average human body here.

And speaking of which, here’s some food for thought. The average IQ is double digits. That’s right. Only about 20-25% of the world’s 6.4 billion folks have triple digit IQ’s. Enjoy that one, folks.

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Abruno345 Said,
March 29th, 2010 @3:28 pm  

Hi my name is Alexis Bruno and I think the human body is a great thing! I’m a 5th grader looking things up about the human body. I’m trying to find out why we need all these internal organs, and I ask why, why do we need oxygen to breath? We need alot of amazing things to live on this wonderful little planet we live on Earth!

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ish Said,
April 9th, 2010 @5:05 pm  

very intresting.

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You're 2pid Said,
June 4th, 2010 @1:18 pm  

OK 5th grade dude you’re a chop , you need oxygen so that the tiny cells in you’re body can break down the nutrients you give them , so of coarse you need oxygen , EVERY LIVING THING NEEDS OXYGEN !

and no sleep for a month , Puh-leez who exactly was recording this for you , i really hope you didn’t do it yourself cuz i’m priddy sure you would not know if you fel asleep yourself .

How can you still have an erection vertically , gravity pulls down wards

You are a terrible speller and these are almost all common knowlage anyway, so why bother.

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You're 2pid Said,
June 4th, 2010 @1:21 pm  

PS . 5th dude guy . You doen’t need oxygen to breath .
You breath so that you can inhale oxygen you little cocky sh1t

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Quak Said,
June 4th, 2010 @1:22 pm  

Hey this is awesome .

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Awake2late Said,
June 9th, 2010 @1:13 pm  

I wanted to see if you could die from lack of sleep, But their is still nothing proving that lack of sleep does kill it seems dangerous but not dealdy.

Ps. Please submit more facts

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S.Anusiyaa Said,
June 11th, 2010 @12:27 pm  

These r truly amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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S.Anusiyaa Said,
June 11th, 2010 @12:30 pm  

These r truly amazing & shocking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Danish Said,
June 16th, 2010 @7:34 am  

i am worried about my sleep . i have not slept for 3 days
i am going to sleep now byeeee litle funny but its true

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jazmin Said,
June 29th, 2010 @10:37 pm  

man you guys are so picky wtf is your guys damn problem god cant say anthing without being judged god you damn haters!

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July 6th, 2010 @12:48 pm  

ALL IS WELL THATS END IS WELL………

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Mangesh Said,
July 30th, 2010 @4:26 pm  

IF t is possible for you to survive even after the removal of the spleen, the stomach, one kidney, one lung, 75% of the liver, 80% of the intestines, and almost every organ from the pelvic and groin area then why scientist are trying to figure out the specific purpose of Philtrum

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