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No. 3: Salvador Dali believed naps should be self-limiting and advised taking them while seated in a chair, lightly holding a heavy key in one dangling hand. Eventually, you drop the key and wake up.

No. 4: Jimmy Buffett named his final album in 2023 after his grandfather's description of a nap: Equal Strain on All Parts.

No. 5: Mikaela Shiffrin, Olympic gold medal skier, says she wakes up in the morning eagerly looking forward to her daily afternoon nap.

Doc Talk

Nocturia -- waking up more than once during the night to urinate

Phobia of the Week

 

Ancraophobia -- fear of wind or drafts

Food for Thought

Slim Jims are a ubiquitous packaged meat product found wherever, uh, people stand in line at cashier counters. They are comprised of 17 ingredients, which are listed on every plastic tube but are hard to read.

As a public service, the ingredients are beef, pork, mechanically separated chicken, water, textured soy flour, corn syrup, salt and less than 2% of the following: natural flavors, dextrose, paprika and extractives of paprika, hydrolyzed soy protein, maltodextrin, lactic acid starter culture, barley malt extract, citric acid, soy lecithin and sodium nitrite.

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