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How can it be normal to sleep anywhere from six to ten hours?

You're completely normal if you only sleep around six hours a night. But it's also normal to sleep almost 70 per cent more.
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This is how a Viking's hair and beard may have looked

A small figurine discovered in Eastern Norway offers the clearest picture yet of a Viking’s hair and his distinctive beard.
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Autism rates are rising. Researchers say it cannot solely be explained by more people being diagnosed

The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) recently presented startling figures on the increase in autism diagnoses from ...
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World record: Held his breath for nearly 30 minutes

Vitomir Maričić is one of the world's best freedivers. And this summer he set a new world record: He held his breath for 29 minutes and 3 seconds. "I wanted to give up many times," Maričić tells ...
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New theory turns the layers beneath the seabed upside down

The researchers used 3D seismic images from the northern North Sea. They came up with the new theory when they studied the ...
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These immigrants in Norway face mental health challenges

OPINION: Traditional integration metrics – employment rates, income levels, and housing stability – fail to capture the ...
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Over 30 mysterious children's graves uncovered in Norway

The burial field is unique in a European context, according to the Museum of Cultural History. It was found during an excavation in Fredrikstad municipality in 2023, and the analysis results of the ...
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Norway: 7 per cent more deaths than expected this year – due to Covid

Covid-19 is the main cause, according to the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH). The excess mortality so far amounts to 2700 more deaths than expected. In total, Norway has recorded 4399 ...
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The forgotten extermination of Norwegians in the Soviet Union

Millions of people in the Soviet Union were victims of ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Stalin and other Communist leaders in the 1930s and 1940s. Less well known is the fact that a Norwegian minority ...
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Every Viking owned a stone like this - and they traded massive quantities of them too

At the end of the 19th century, people emptied the water out of an old quarry in Trøndelag in mid-Norway. Some thought that it might contain a large silver deposit. But the only thing they found were ...
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This bleached patch in your underwear is completely normal

TikTok is a quirky place. Just a few taps can let you see anything from cute animals and cool tricks, to… someone’s underwear. 21-year-old Alyssa chose to show her underwear on TikTok. At the time of ...
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Wolf packs don’t actually have alpha males and alpha females,

You may have heard that a wolf pack is led by an alpha pair. Given this designation, it’s easy to imagine that a pack consists of young adults and older animals in a strict ranking system. You can ...