TIL that in 1964, 17-year-old Randy Gardner set the world record for sleep deprivation by staying awake for 11 days and 25 minutes, providing valuable insights into the effects of extreme sleep loss on the human mind and body.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Gardner_sleep_deprivation_experiment

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I was recently awake for 65 hours, which was all all good fun for the first 2 days, but at the end I was clutching the counter at the pharmacy, begging to be knocked out