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Possible it's just the superhuman malleability of young people? Also smaller body so the average needed intake is probably based on a larger person, etc. Still insane, poor kid
I laughed at first but honestly, poor kid. Trapped inside a dark container for six days, came out crying and dehydrated, probably thinking he was going to die. That's some traumatic shit. >

Jesus, 6 days. That’s fucked >

So the thing we were told about dying if we didn't drink water for 3 days was BS. >

Three days is just a rule of thumb. It depends on many different factors, and you can’t make a universal rule that’s applicable to every person in every situation. What you can say is that on the close of the 72nd hour completely without water, most people will be dead. 
It’s very much a statistical outlier if this poor little guy survived for 6 days completely without water, so there may have been some source for him that hasn’t been reported.