1 Get a medical checkup if you snore. 2  Snoring is a symptom of sleep apnea, the common sleep disorder that affects 10 to 20 million Americans and hikes the risk of high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, and heart attack. 3  Walk one hour a day.
Cocky (mascot) Cocky is the costumed mascot of the University of South Carolina athletics teams. He represents a cartoon version of a gamecock (a fighting rooster). The current version of Cocky made his debut, by Robert Lane, at the Homecoming game of 1980.
North Carolina's state bird is the cardinal which was designated in  1943. The cardinal was chosen as the state bird because the North  Carolina Bird Club initiated a campai â¦ gn to choose a bird for the  state symbol. The cardinal was the popular vote.