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Re:Does the human lifespan have a limit? by missedthecue on Sunday February 13, 2022 @11:11AM (#30322710)
How many 120 year olds do you think the average person would be exposed to several thousand years ago? Especially in an age where birth certificates did not exist.

I have never seen a supercentenarian myself, and I have been in a lot of nursing homes. I only know they exist because of the internet to be honest.

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Re:Does the human lifespan have a limit? by nicoburns on Sunday February 13, 2022 @11:41AM (#30323015)
Personally, probably not very many. But traditions of information sharing and story telling between humans have been strong long before the internet. This isn't some obscure information about space or DNA or something. This is something that would have been relatively accessible without technology.
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