~ Every nuclear accident reported so far anywhere in the world has occurred on the night shift, when people are tired.
~ Most highway accidents take place between midnight and 6:00 am and are fatigue-related. Their rate is nearly triple that of accidents occurring at noon or 6:00 pm.
~ People who suffer from severe sleep apnea have more than twice as many car accidents as the general population.
~ Fifty thousand car accidents a year occur because drivers fall asleep at the wheel.
~ We sleep less now than we did a decade ago, according to data from a Japanese study. In 1970 we slept an average of 7.5 to 8 hours a night. In 1990 we slept an average of 7 to 7.5 hours a night. Nobody knows why this is so, but it may be a result of a faster-paced life, in which we juggle many responsibilities.
~ Fifty percent of the elderly suffer from insomnia.
~ The average person sleeps 220,000 hours in a lifetime.
~ The average healthy sleeper moves forty to sixty times each night.
~ Nearly 40,000,000 North Americans snore occasionally.
~ The life span of a pillow is supposed to be at least two years.
~ Fifteen percent of people sleep in the nude.
~ The highest sound level of a snoring sleeper ever recorded is 90 decibels.
~ Fifteen percent of children under twelve sleepwalk at least once.
~ Louis XIV of France had 413 beds.
~ Mark Twain's advice for insomnia was: "Try lying on the end of the bed, then you might drop off