Castaway survives on just lemon, charcoal and seawater

And other stories from the stranger side of life

Mirador do Roncador, near Rio de Janeiro
Mirador do Roncador, near Rio de Janeiro
(Image credit: J. Bispo Aragão/Getty Images)

A man said he survived on a deserted island for five days by eating two lemons and bits of charcoal and drinking seawater. Brazilian Nelson Nedy was rescued by authorities after a jet skier spotted him waving his T-shirt. Nelson was marooned when he visited an observation point in Grumari beach called Mirador do Roncador, near Rio de Janeiro, and was knocked into the sea by a wave. He washed up onto a deserted island, where he slept in a cave, reported The Metro.

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Men in the US are using social media to share their experiences of having a vasectomy. A growing number of young men in America are having vasectomies, reported The Times, including Mike Pridgen, a comedian from New Jersey, who filmed his entire surgery, including the moment a doctor made the “little pinch”. A group of ten urologists told The New York Times that they had seen a rise in bookings for vasectomies after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade, which guaranteed a woman the constitutional right to an abortion.

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