In 1876, 14-year-old Karolina Olsson went to bed in Sweden and stayed there 32 years. The psychiatrist who studied her doubted she was asleep. Here's why.
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At 10, Lu Zikuan ate five meals a day to reach the weight needed to donate bone marrow to his father. What it took, why weight mattered, and what came after.
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A viral post says parents threw their deaf son to crocodiles. Police records from Karnataka's 2024 Dandeli case tell a more specific, and sadder, story.
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Scientists blocked mobile internet on 467 people's phones for two weeks. Mood, focus and well-being improved, even though few kept the block on the whole time.
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