And the Aztecs weren't the only ones. In early China, body parts of leaders were cooked and consumed in hopes of ingesting the courage and skills of the illustrious. The mountain man Jeremiah Johnson was said to have eaten the livers of over 200 Crow Indians during his life. True or not, the legend made for a reputation of fierceness. A handful of military officers during World War II were later brought before war tribunals and convicted of cannibalism, with some claiming to have gained extra strength or sexual powers.
Insomnia is common enough.
Usually just finding out that they're sleeping normally is enough to cure their pseudoinsomnia. Terminal velocity of a falling baseball is probably around 95 mph, notes physicist Peter J. Brancazio. That's about what a good major league fastballer can muster. In 1938, a couple of pro catchers nabbed balls tossed from atop a 700-foot Cleveland skyscraper after watching the first few rebound 13 stories off the pavement. And the ball got away.