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eager_toilet follows/you Director of Consanguinity, Hierarchy, and Exclusion  2mo ago (theconversation.com) 902 thread views #300140

surprising no one, "blue zones" are fricking fake.

https://theconversation.com/the-data-on-extreme-human-ageing-is-rotten-from-the-inside-out-ig-nobel-winner-saul-justin-newman-239023 

								

								

									
									

									
								

							

							

								
									
								
							

							

								
	

							

						

						
						

							

								
							

						

					

					
						

							
							
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wtf is a blue zone

						


						
							

							

								
									
								
							


							

								
	

							


							

								

									

										
										

									


								
						

					
				


				

				
					
	

	
		

			
		


		

			

				
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It's the name given to regions around the world famous for their "longevity" (lot's of people living over 100 to be more precise) like Okinawa in Japan or some Islands in the Mediterranean.
It turns out most of the supposed centenarians have no birth certificates and evidence about their age comes from second hand documentation from latter life and "trust me bro". For instance, some guy who's supposedly 105 years old could actually be 95, he has no birth certificate and information about his age comes from his government pension which he applied for at 65, but he wasn't really 65, he was 55 and lied to retire earlier, that's a hypothetical example I'm giving to explain how it could work.
Many are already dead but because there are no death certificates some government records will point out they're "alive" and over 100.

						


						
							

							

								
									
								
							


							

								
	

							


							

								

									

										
										

									


								
						

					
				


				

				
					
	

	
		

			
		


		

			

				
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record keeping sucked butt back in the days.
Ruralcels would wait to bring several kids at once to be registered, so you'd have a newborn, a 2yo and 4yo have the same official age

						


						
							

							

								
									
								
							


							

								
	

							


							

								

									

										
										

									


								
						

					
				


				

				
					
	

	
		

			
		


		

			

				
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That's why baptism certificates are better genealogy records than birth certificates pre 1920s.
Though the mormon genealogy site actually has my great-great grandfather's birth certificate from 1889 scanned, his files also include the scan of his marriage certificate from the Cartório de Registro Civil and death certificate from the early 1970s, and the immigration records of his parents (entrance in Brazil, date, name of the ship, profession).

						


						
							

							

								
									
								
							


							

								
	

							


							

								

									

										
										

									


								
						

					
				


				

				
					
	

	
		

			
		


		

			

				
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!metashit @birdenthusiast MORMON
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I don't think they had more than my great grandparents

						


						
							

							

								
									
								
							


							

								
	

							


							

								

									

										
										

									


								
						

					
				


				

				
					
	

	
		

			
		


		

			

				
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I remember a story about a ricecel family keeping there dead grandpa in the basement to collect his pension and only getting cought because people wanted to congratulate him on being the oldest man alive

						


						
							

							

								
									
								
							


							

								
	

							


							

								

									

										
										

									


								
						

					
				


				

				
					
	

	
		

			
		


		

			

				
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some guy who's supposedly 105 years old could actually be 95
just drill a hole into his arm and check how old he is
core sample a bunch of old itals

						


						
							

							

								
									
								
							


							

								
	

							


							

								

									

										
										

									


								
						

					
				


				

				
					
	

	
		

			
		


		

			

				
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