Who is the oldest person who died?

Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 at the age of 122 in Arles, southern France, holds the record for the oldest confirmed age reached by any human.
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Who is the oldest person alive 2022?

Sister André became the oldest living person last year when the previous oldest person, Kane Tanaka of Japan, died at 119 years old in April 2022. According to the Gerontology Research Group, the oldest living person is now Maria Branyas Morera of Spain at 115 years and 320 days, as of Wednesday.
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Who is the oldest person has died?

Born on February 21, 1875, Jeanne Louise Calment's life spanned 122 years and 164 days, according to the Guinness World Records statement.
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Who is the oldest human alive today?

María Branyas Morera has lived through two world wars, the Spanish civil war, the 1918 flu pandemic and Covid. Now the California-born woman is the world's oldest living person.
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Who lived more than 300 years?

According to one tradition, Epimenides of Crete (7th, 6th centuries BC) lived nearly 300 years.
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Who lived the longest in the Bible?

He had the longest lifespan of all those given in the Bible, having died at the age 969. According to the Book of Genesis, Methuselah was the son of Enoch, the father of Lamech, and the grandfather of Noah. Elsewhere in the Bible, Methuselah is mentioned in genealogies in 1 Chronicles and the Gospel of Luke.
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Is someone still alive from the 1800s?

Italian Emma Morano, born on November 29, 1899, is now the last living person officially recognised to have been born in the 1800s. Currently aged 116 years and 166 days, Morano was born in Civiasco, Vercelli, Piedmont, Italy, during the reign of King Umberto I.
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What is the oldest dog?

Bluey, The Oldest Dog Ever Recorded. An Australian Cattle Dog standing on a rock. The greatest reliable age recorded for a dog is 29 years and 5 months for an Australian cattle dog named Bluey, owned by Les Hall of Rochester, Victoria.
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How many people are 100 years old?

The United Nations estimates that currently there are 573,000 centenarians, almost quadruple the estimate of 151,000 made in 2000. According to a 1998 United Nations demographic survey, Japan is expected to have 272,000 centenarians by 2050; other sources suggest that the number could be closer to 1 million.
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How many people make it to 110?

A supercentenarian (sometimes hyphenated as super-centenarian) is a person who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in 1,000 centenarians. Supercentenarians typically live a life free of major age-related diseases until shortly before the maximum human lifespan is reached.
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Are there any 100 year olds alive?

About one in every 5,000 people in the United States is a centenarian—someone who's 100 or more years old—and about 85 percent of them are women.
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What dog lives the shortest?

Flat-faced dog breeds, including French Bulldogs and Pugs, have the shortest life expectancy, a new study has found. According to vets at the Royal Veterinary College, brachycephalic dogs don't live as long due to the increased risk of breathing problems, skin fold infections and spinal disease they face.
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Who was the first dog born?

The archaeological record and genetic analysis show the remains of the Bonn-Oberkassel dog buried beside humans 14,200 years ago to be the first undisputed dog, with disputed remains occurring 36,000 years ago.
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What animal lives the longest?

Ocean Quahogs (Clams)

The ocean quahog is a species of edible clam, a marine bivalve mollusk. Ocean quahogs live in the Atlantic and can live more than 400 years old. At 507 years of age, Ming the clam broke the Guinness World Record as the oldest animal in the world.
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Is anyone born before 1900 still alive?

Born about a month before 1900 began and when England's Queen Victoria was still on the throne, Emma Morano is now the oldest living person. Incredibly, she still lives on her own in northern Italy.
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Who is the person that lived 150 years?

Top news stories today. So far, the oldest ever recorded person was Jeanne Calment, who was born in February 1875.
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Who walked with God and disappeared?

The text reads that Enoch "walked with God: and he was no more; for God took him" (Gen 5:21–24), which is interpreted as Enoch's entering heaven alive in some Jewish and Christian traditions, and interpreted differently in others. Enoch is the subject of many Jewish and Christian traditions.
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How old did Adam and Eve live?

Genesis 5 lists Adam's descendants from Seth to Noah with their ages at the birth of their first sons and their ages at death. Adam's age at death is given as 930 years.
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Who lived for 600 years?

Genesis tells nothing about Methuselah beyond sparse genealogical details: according to Genesis 5 he was the great-great-great-great-grandson of Seth, the child of Adam and Eve begotten more than a century after Cain.
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Is it possible to live forever?

No matter how advanced technology gets, it might be impossible for our bodies to go on forever. Some researchers believe there's a limit on how long it's physically possible to live: perhaps 125 years.
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Can humans live for 1,000 years?

"Someone could even live to 1,000, but the probability of that is one in 1 quintillion," Milholland added. (If all the humans who have ever lived in the history of the species were totaled up, we'd still fall short of 1 quintillion.)
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Can humans live 200 years?

Humans' life expectancy (average) is 70-85 years. However, the oldest verified person (Jeanne Clement, 1875-1997) lived up to 122 years. As a person ages, the telomeres (chromosome ends) tend to become shorter in every consecutive cycle of replication. Also, bones start getting weaker by reducing in size and density.
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What dog is the heartbreak breed?

Great Dane: 7-8 years

Bloat and hip dysplasia is also very common in Great Danes. This breed is nicknamed by Veterinarians the “heartbreak” breed for its numerous heart related diseases.
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