THE FORGOTTEN HABIT OF TWO SLEEPS

First discovered by Roger Kirsch in the 1990’s when he was researching court documents, he came across references to ‘first sleeps’. Then he found references to ‘first sleeps’ in the works of writers like Geoffrey Chaucer – Canterbury Tales, and other medieval writers. Later Roger found more and more references, in letters, diaries, medical references and many more. For more information take a look at this article: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieval-habit-of-biphasic-sleep

SECOND POST OF FASCINATING FACTS IS A POEM:

AMAZING!

You cannot lick the end of your elbow

But I bet you’ll give it a try.

And did you know that pigs

Just cannot look up to the sky.

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A crocodile can’t stick its tongue out.

A prawn’s heart beats in its head.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain,

But it lays the largest egg!

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A shark is the only known fish in the ocean

That blinks using both of its eyes.

The bellowing song of the male fin whale

Can be heard across six hundred miles.

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All ants on the earth weigh as much as us all,

And a cloud weighs a million tonnes.

The loudest creature on earth is a prawn;

It makes decibels louder than guns.

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A leech has thirty-two brains, two hearts

And an incredible five pairs of eyes.

Flamingos are not naturally pink,

This comes from their diets dye.

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But the weirdest and scariest fact I’ve learned

Is, if a cockroach loses its head,

It can live for weeks without it when,

By rights, it should be dead!

c Val Harris 2024