Ed Sheeran bought a ticket to LA with no contacts. He was spotted by Jamie Foxx, who offered him the use of his recording studio and a bed in his Hollywood home for six weeks.
100 Mind-Blowing Bed Facts
Whenever Charles Dickens was away from home, he would always realign the bed he was sleeping in to face Northwards, as he felt that this fostered and unlocked his creativity.
Clinomania is the excessive desire to lay in bed all day.
Drink green tea before bed to burn calories while sleeping. Green tea will also increase your metabolism.
We don’t know why, but research shows that in the days leading up to a full moon, people go to bed later and sleep less, reports Cleveland Clinic Health Essentials.
Napoléon Bonaparte’s penis was stolen. Posthumously, if that makes it any better. The genitalia were removed from his body by his doctor during the autopsy. Allegedly, it was given to a priest in Corsica. However, his junk was not properly preserved, so now it has been compared to dried leather and beef jerky. It was first displayed in a museum in 1927. Currently, the daughter of a urologist (who bought it for US$3,000 to keep under his bed) keeps it. Bids for the shrivelled genitalia have reached US$100,000.
You sweat an average of 26 gallons on your bed per year. This means that an average person sweats 1 cup of perspiration on his bed per day. How’s that for WTF facts?
There’s a high-voltage ejector bed that launches you out of sleep. In 2015, Colin Furze invented a creative alarm that would throw you out of bed as an alarm.
France has 12 time zones. Technically, Russia has the most extreme time zones – one person could be waking up at 8:00 AM while another person in some other part of the country is going to bed at 11:00 PM. However, France has the most time zones.
You are about 1cm taller in the morning when you first get up than when you go to bed. This is because during the day the soft cartilage between your bones gets squashed and compressed.
Female axolotls lay up to 1,000 eggs at a time. That’s a lot of baby axolotls! These eggs sink to the bed of the lake or river and hatch after around two weeks, with the babies left to fend for themselves right out of the egg.
1 in 10 European babies are conceived in an IKEA bed.