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As some of you may know, I’m interested in longevity. I’m not too bothered about my personal lifespan, though it does prevail in my daydreamt thoughts time to time. I use Wikipedia as my guide to keep an eye on current supercentenarians (i.e. anyone above 110), especially Walter Breuning, the world’s oldest man. Kama Chinen, who I’ve monitored once in a while for some time now died yesterday, aged 114.

So what? She was 114 (a few days away from 115 as a matter of fact), why should anyone care? Well, it’s not so much the person themselves I care about (except from Walter Breuning), it’s the fact that we’re losing years of the nineteenth century faster than we’re gaining years of this crappy century. I don’t know about you, but I like to live in a world where I can still say “there’s someone alive that was born in 18XX”.

Anyway, 1895 is gone and we’re on 1896 now, and I will be pissed when this one goes too. I’m talking in terms of the verified though as there are a few disputed claims, but whatever.

That’s that, but did you know that the world’s longest recorded lived organism was 250 million years old?