While you slept last night, the world around you continued to amass information about everything, including you.

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You would think the more you slept the fewer calories you would burn, you would gain weight.

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"If you have slept, you use a means of navigation that is less thoughtful, " Mr Orban told the BBC News website.

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These body rhythms hold true regardless of how much you've slept or how recently you've eaten.

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Kate, 36, from Manchester, who has herpes, thinks the stigma attached to STIs also means "people assume you've slept around".

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You should have seen what we slept on when I was little.

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We passed through the medical facility, and the attention to details is so exact that you can see the bed under which Ripley and Newt slept and the remains of the facehugger that Hicks dispatched.

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None of us slept as little as Mark did, and now you can see why.

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