I read the story earlier this week.  I was interested in the part where he
attributes this feat to a hole in his palate.  My dentist sent me to
specialist when he found a tiny hole in the roof of my mouth on my last
visit :)

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"He says he has survived several decades without food or water because of a
hole in his palate.

Drops of water filter through this hole, he says, sustaining him. "

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