Can someone live to be a supercentenarian?: Scientific American

[unhipster]

And you thought you felt old: Last week, in the village of Prishakhtinsk in central Kazakhstan, Sakhan Dosova celebrated what she, her family and Kazakh officials all agree was her 130th birthday. If true, her advanced age would shatter the old-timer record set by Jeanne Calment, who died in Arles, France, in 1997 at the age of 122

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[kittykatkatja]

I wonder how many of the global advances in the last 130 years have made it to the village of Prishakhtinsk...

And completely unrelated, your post from Wednesday inspired me to get a piece of chocolate cake in the cafeteria today. I bet D&B's was better.