Actuality, by Marketplace and Quartz

Monsnoozin’

Sabri Ben-Achour Jul 24, 2015
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About 40 percent of Americans get less than seven hours of sleep a night. Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images
Actuality, by Marketplace and Quartz

Monsnoozin’

Sabri Ben-Achour Jul 24, 2015
About 40 percent of Americans get less than seven hours of sleep a night. Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images
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This week, Actuality stays up past our bedtime to meet a man who slept just 4.5 hours a night for an entire year — and thrived. Then, we get soaked by the world’s most economically important weather phenomenon. Plus, a Kazakh sleeping mystery.



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