Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 10, 2012
Transcript:
First documented in 1962- Nodding disease still mysteriously infects children in Uganda, South Sudan, and Tanzania, causing them to fall ill by the thousands without any known cause! See you in a few hours! Before the Industrial Revolution change the way people scheduled their lives, folks would commonly sleep in two four hour session separated by a few hours of work or leisure! The fan man! 82-year-old M. Natarajan- a Hindu devotee from Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, has spent every day of the past 52 years fanning the visitors of local temples to help keep them cool!
No comment needed.. Except that even post industrial neo-slaverism era, the Portuguese and Spanish still do short nights, and nap during the day. South of Italy too, in a lesser extent.The idea is to definitely not work during the hot hours of the early afternoon.