Fast Facts: Oct. 15
October 15, 2010
- We spend almost a third of our lives in bed.
- 64 percent of women sleep on the left side of the bed.
- Homosexuality is banned in Albania and two people of the same sex are banned from sharing a bed — even if they’re not homosexual.
- Winston Churchill habitually dictated letters and went through his briefing papers in bed.
- More than 600,000 Americans each year are injured on beds and chairs.
- The United States has many sleeping towns: Sleepy Eye, Minn., Sleepy Creek, Ore., Sleeping Beauty Peak, Ariz., Sleepers Bend, Calif.
- Sleepwalking is a condition also called somnambulism.
