FACTOID # 119: The United States has the world's highest number of McDonald’s restaurants per capita. Americans also die of obesity more often than any other nation, with more deaths than Mexico, Germany, Spain, Austria and Canada combined.
 
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"Sleeper" has a number of different meanings, usually connected to sleep in varying degrees of literalness: Sleeping girl Sleep is the fundamental anabolic process common to all life forms, plant and animal. ...


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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus (763 words)
The sleepers, having improved the occasion by a long discourse, then die praising God.
The emperor wants to build golden tombs for them, but they appear to him in a dream and ask to be buried in the earth in their cave.
The Seven Sleepers have feasts in the Byzantine Calendar on 4 August and 22 October; in the Roman Martyrology they are commemorated as Sts.
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