At the tail end of 1963 in America, the Beach Boys were playing on the radio, the Vietnam War had begun to draw in US involvement, high school kids were on their Christmas break and two teenagers were planning an experiment that would capture the nation’s attention.
It ended on 8 January 1964; 17-year-old Randy Gardner had managed to stay awake for 264.4 hours or 11 days and 25 minutes, creating the world record for the longest time a human has gone without sleep.
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