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People are caught up in magical thinking': was the oldest woman in the world a fraud? | Ageing | The Guardian
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A French supercentenarian Jeanne Calment celebrating her 121st birthday in 1997. Aged 122 years and 164 days at time of her death, she is both the human being with the longest confirmed
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People are caught up in magical thinking': was the oldest woman in the world a fraud? | Ageing | The Guardian
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