Today we've got a classic Skeptoid episode for you.

We're going to take a famous urban legend and learn that its origins are, no great surprise,

almost if not total, fiction, like so many other urban legends.

But like all the best of them, there's actually some really cool science underlying it.

And in this case, it's that science that first tept us off that this particular legend

was nothing more than legend.

The Russian sleep experiment is coming up next on Skeptoid.

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The Russian sleep experiment.

It has become a permanent fixture in the fabric of Internet lore.

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