• Pipoca@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    People lie about their age all the time. There’s been many elderly people with badly documented births who fudged the numbers and added a decade or five to their age.

    Unless there’s good documentation, be skeptical of extreme longevity claims.

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      1 year ago

      Did you even read the article? There is good documentation. Man you keyboard ninjas need to spend less time in the dojo and more time in the library.

      Bobi’s grand old age was validated by the Portuguese government’s pet database, which is managed by the National Union of Veterinarians.