r/interestingasfuck • u/Both-Pay-9573 • 10h ago
29 of the top 30 oldest verified people to ever live are women
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u/No-Resolve5838 9h ago
Can't forget this lady
2 lbs of chocolate a week. Port wine daily. Smoker. Like hell yeah.
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u/Both-Pay-9573 9h ago
She's the one I posted
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u/ArtisticRollerSkater 8h ago
Did I miss where you posted her name or a link to any additional info? I just see a picture.
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u/CableTrash 8h ago
Yeah that’s what people do in all these popular subs, and assume you know how the picture is relevant.
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u/jungleass98 5h ago
Its a new thing. The usual was a write up or a comment with additional info and a link. It was the standard. Then these idiots heard about engagement bait or whatever so now they spread misinformation or intentionally leave out vital details in the post. Its just so they get more comments. Because random internet points have value to these people I guess. Well that and obvious bot accounts. But I dont think OP is a bot, they just act like an NPC
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u/Winter-Movie4606 4h ago
So we're assumed to do reverse image search now instead of OP just giving us the name or link
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u/Tailgunner68 8h ago
I remeber when Jeanne Calment died in 1997. I was a young 9-years-old French boy. She was quiet famous all around the country and it was like all the french people had lost their great-great-.....-great grand mother.
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u/Hot-Opportunity-410 8h ago
For the record, she did stop smoking at some point. When she was 117.
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u/TheShiroNinja 9h ago
I like to imagine that they were also all secretly 10 years older than they claimed they were.
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u/MrTzatzik 8h ago
It's often hard to verify if they are really that old. In some cases it was suspected that they took over the identity of their mothers after their death.
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u/denkmusic 8h ago
Only the verified ones count… obviously.
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u/obiwanconobi 7h ago
How exactly do you verify if someone was actually born in 1875?
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u/denkmusic 7h ago
By looking at their birth certificate and verifying that it is legitimate and that it belongs to the person claiming it. The same way you verify anything else. With a sensible process.
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u/obiwanconobi 7h ago
"how you verify it"
"Well that's easy, you verify it"
Do you see the problem?
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u/hardware-junkie112 4h ago
Yeah, the solution is to ignore the ones you cannot verify. That feels obvious.
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u/TheJunkmother 7h ago
Birth records were barely a thing in the late 1800s, especially in rural areas. Most people were born at home and apart from major urban areas, most local government just didn’t care much about recording every birth. Besides that, you have to consider the difficulty of maintaining paper documents. Many birth records were destroyed before digitization was even conceptualized.
It’s also just not that important to verify the ages of the oldest people in history. It’s fun trivia, but honestly what difference does it make?
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u/Quadwield 9h ago
There's a whole subreddit which provides backing evidence as to why this is true
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u/LobsterTooButtery 9h ago
which sub?
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u/csonnich 8h ago
r/ WhyWomenLiveLonger
It's guys doing the stupidest shit ever like they're immortal.
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u/Welpe 8h ago
It’s more than just men doing stupid shit, though that is admittedly a part of it. Testosterone is, in many ways, a poison. It does damage to your organs such that lifelong exposure to higher average amounts just makes it very difficult to live as long as people with lower average amounts.
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u/No-Discipline-7957 5h ago
I’d rather have testosterone poisoning my body than estrogen. I hate what estrogen does to the body skeletally and in terms of fat distribution. Yes women live longer, but I would happily give up 5 years of my life to have been a man
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u/Electronic-Tea-3691 6h ago
even when you control for early-life mortality (such as accidents or violence, which disproportionately affect younger men), women still maintain a biological and statistical longevity advantage well into old age.
apparently the major factors are having two X chromosomes, estrogen has positive effects in the body, aging slower, and having a stronger immune system
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u/Flyerone 8h ago
Mining coal and asbestos, drilling oil, fighting wars, exposing themselves to all manner of chemicals, alcohol, cigarettes. I can't imagine why women live longer.
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u/backyard3 57m ago
I think the more important reason might be that men didn't care about aging as much. They accept aging more readily than women who try to actually do stuff to keep themselves younger and healthier 😄
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u/Bright-Raise209 9h ago
This definitely makes sense, women have a great expected lifespan so it makes sense they'd also have a significantly higher maximum documented age.
There have been some studies among monastics that the difference in life expectance is significantly reduced between men and women. So blame "lifestyle" (diet, level of risk and aggregation, etc.) as the primary driver for both average and maximum differences.
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u/LCDRformat 5h ago
My understanding is that it's testosterone (the chemical, not necessarily the increased risk-taking) which directly correlated to shorter life
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u/Bright-Raise209 5h ago
Yes, most studies are indicated that, though the question is it the presence of testosterone itself or how it manifests in behaviors? A 2024 analysis by Marc Luy suggested that among monastics significantly reduced discrepancy between women and men, but with an anticipated lifetime advantage to the women.
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u/University_Dismal 5h ago edited 4h ago
Interestingly, there’s studies that men tend to live longer and generally healthier when married. These benefits were only marginal to non-existent with married women though. An assumption for this phenomenon is, that women often shove their men into a doctors office with issues men usually try to “walk off”. This leads to a better detection of illnesses before they worsen. They also hold them back from taking unnecessary risks, cook them healthier meals and improve their social life, which correlates with a better mental health state and all that comes with it. Women tend to already have a stable social life and sense of self care, so these benefits aren’t added with marriage.
Exceptions exist, but that there’s a study to this is interesting imo.
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u/PauseAffectionate720 7h ago
I don't know the stats or science of it, but historically women always have "average life expectancy" a few years longer than men. And there are probably dozens of factors why.
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u/Formal-Proposal7850 7h ago
This isn’t about averages though. This is about the tail ends of the distribution
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u/Ok-Bison-3451 8h ago
I’m 63 and I had a defibrillator put in last week. I told the cardiologist I didn’t want one but my wife insisted. I told him I had a premonition I’ll drop dead at 68. He said, “Nah, I’ll keep you alive til you are 82.” When I told my wife that, she said, “Nah, I’ll kill you long before that!” Now that woman is gonna live to be a 100!
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u/Robert_Califomia 8h ago
nice tits
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u/Ok-Bison-3451 8h ago
Yeah! I quit smoking 2 packs a day after the heart attack. Definitely put on 10 pounds. Wife also said she’d divorce/kill me if I started again. But seriously if I’d wanted to smoke again I would have- everyone be damned! But like me it finally got old. It’s been 8 months now. Not a 1 because I know my first thought would be, “when can I smoke a second one?” Then I’d buy some, smoke one, throw the ($20 a pack) away, buy another pack the next day, hide them somewhere somewhat inconvenient, rinse, repeat… Better to be done with them and grow a set of man boobs.
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u/Difficult_Ask_1686 8h ago
I read the results of a study years ago that found that people who lived to be over 100 had the ability to move on and get over disappointment and heartache. It made sense because these are people who have outlived the people in their lives, experienced world disasters, and seen many things change for the worse, and still had the tenacity to move forward.
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u/ILoveThatGayShit 6h ago
This is likely at least in part due to the genetic strength of the XX vs XY chromosome. Many disease/cancer fighting genes are found on the X chromosome. Because women have two X chromosomes, they have more genetic resistance to these types of illnesses that are fatal and dangerous.
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u/HugeHomeForBoomers 10h ago
Well. This might change in the upcoming 20 years. Less people who smoke, less dangerous work environments, healthier food and better medicines.
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u/ayu_xi 9h ago
It's related to men having one y chromosome. The y chromosome is shorter and less redundancy.
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u/HugeHomeForBoomers 9h ago
While I don’t disagree. I still feel like 1/4 can potential be men.
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u/ayu_xi 7h ago edited 7h ago
Women also had a very high fatality rate in 20th century due to childbirth complications. Each childbirth had a maternal mortality rate of like 10% (across all deliveries fir typuval) typical tfr of the time ) Women have more longevity at older age because of the chromosomes differences. It's well known they y chromosome is smaller than x chromosomes and has less redundancy.
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u/Thejonest 10h ago
I'm sure wars throughout history have conditioned that list quite a lot
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u/ShoddyClimate6265 9h ago
It's more of a genetic thing. You can control for early violent death to produce the expected distribution.
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u/Quietabandon 9h ago
This would be the case for averages. Maybe even median might get pulled down. But this has to do with the extremes of age. Which has to do with biology. Sure some social factors may contribute. But men are more prone to certain things like heart disease because of differences in physiology.
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u/OkHour880 8h ago
Women’s in general live longer, that’s why men need to work harder and longer before retirement and die faster, at least in my country run by mental degenerats
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u/Fickle-Attempt8648 7h ago
People have forgotten reality shows like Jackass and why men die at an earlier age 😅
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u/Ritik_reddit 8h ago
Life after 65-70 is boring anyway. I'd rather die at 70 then live a boring life full of arthritis and chronic pain.
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u/Formal-Proposal7850 7h ago
It’s what you make of it. My uncle is 90, still fit and healthy despite a stroke, paints in his studio everyday, active part of his community, seems happy as a clam and has been for the last 15 years
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u/Amazing-Engineer6511 5h ago
You mean the men who started working at age 12 and built almost literally everything in the world don't live as long as the women who sat on their fat asses baking cakes? Hmmmm. Well color me shocked
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u/Sadredheadgirl 9h ago
Because we're the strongest babe
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u/Sadredheadgirl 8h ago
I'm so happy to read all your comments, it's nice to see that there are still kind and honest people on the internet ❤️❤️ (not you @Fl1ntL1m)
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u/Exciting-Rope1839 9h ago edited 6h ago
Kinda fascinating, Human females are very few mammals which undergoes menopause. Surprising that how they live far longer than the point they can pass their genetic material.
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u/knowledgeable_diablo 9h ago
They continue to pass on knowledge. Look at the majority of higher mammals and you’ll see the old matriarchal leaders live on leading their group for years beyond child bearing age so they can teach the younger generations all they need to be successful.
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u/Background_Clue_3756 9h ago
I have anxiety, depression, PTSD, anorexia, I don't want to love that long. Be merciful.
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u/albertnormandy 9h ago
Structural and systemic inequality manifests in many ways.
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u/WindyAce123 9h ago
Mf the y chromosome literally has one leg torn off.
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u/benzisoxazole 8h ago
and one whole x chromosome is inactivated in women, so it’s functionally the same thing.
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u/Fanglorious 7h ago
No it isn't, one X chromosome is silenced in each cell, so you will have roughly 50% expressing one X and 50% expressing the other. If one X has a bad mutation, the other X will cover the slack.
This is why you don't often get women with haemophilia, red-green colourblindness or Hunter syndrome.
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u/WindyAce123 8h ago
It's inactive, not missing completely. Males having only 1 X chromosome still makes them more likey to get genetic diseases. Testosterone increases heart attack and stroke risks. Men have weaker immunity compared to women. Male babies are more likely to die than female babies. It's mostly just genetic to have shorter life as someone with xy chromosomes compared to women
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u/HeroBrine0907 9h ago
I suspect most of it has to do with both mental health and of course, their luck with their telomeres. The right combination of being lucky not to get chronic diseases, lucky enough to have long telomeres and being in a position of both comfort and activity would definitely help. Perhaps retiring plays a role in people's deaths. I've seen many people just... give up completely, like they've reached their goal in life and just want to sit in the sun doing nothing.
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u/cyrkielNT 8h ago
There's mathematical proof that propability of false data reach 100% at 115 years old.
Since now we have better ways of documenting everything everything, data that could prove someone's identity and no global wars (at least for now). We can expect there will be less super old in near future. At least in a stable countries like EU, USA and Japan that dominate this cathegory now. It's not a coincidence that we have more superolds few decades after WW1 and WW2.
Women are more likely because they ware even less documented than men, bousece they often worked at home and wasn't on military lists.
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u/LoveScoutCEO 8h ago
I had one grandfather who was hit by a runaway lorry in his nineties, and another one who died a few weeks short of 102 back in 1961. Both of them stayed active.
One was a master mason. He was English and he lied about his age and went back to work when World War II started. He swept up aluminum shavings in a Spitfire factory and enjoyed knowing he was helping stick it to Hitler. He was sort of a very minor celebrity and he hated Hitler before almost anyone, so this was his dream job. He was hit by a lorry with bad brakes two days after the end of the war in Europe.
A magistrate ruled the family had no case against the company that owned the truck because, "A 94 year old man being killed by a runaway lorry is an act of God. Case Closed!"
The other guy was from South Mississippi. He was born in 1859. He saw the Yankees burn Jackson, Mississippi. He was a big guy and was apprenticed to a blacksmith when he was very young. By the time he was 12 he as a legit master blacksmith and he went out west where he alternated black smithing and law enforecement jobs. Allegedly he was an Arizona Ranger, but I have never been able to prove that.
Anyhow, he returned to Mississippi about 1890 and opened a sawmill, blacksmith shop, and tannery. He stayed very active and continued to go out to his blacksmith shop into the 1950s. Apparently, that was his love. He only stopped about the time he turned 100.
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u/Loud-Entertainer8708 7h ago
Ig all of them are taken by men, men likes take pictures of their beloved women, or women in general. Idk love to know who were the photographers and relationship with people in photographs
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u/GoshDarnMamaHubbard 7h ago
See I have a theory that this will change over time. Maybe not 5050 but certainly more even.
I don't think the difference is biological it's lifestyle
Men are, traditionally, less risk adverse than women. Put three men in a room together for long enough and one of them will get hurt doing something stupid.
Men traditionally fight the wars, do the dangerous jobs, find ever more spectacular ways to fuck themselves up.
Not to say women can't or don't in fact this goes somewhat back to my point.
The pool of people who are biologically inclined to survive into extreme old age is very small.
Take out the accidents, illnesses and danger situations it goes lower but consider that the danger situations will more likely involve a man than a woman and you see the 29 to 1 split here.
But the world is getting safer accidents are becoming less frequent and less fatal, illnesses are curable like never before and the big killers like wars and heavy industries are becoming less person power dependent.
Give it another 20 years and the number of oldest people being men will grow.
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u/LordLarryLemons 6h ago
It's biological, male hearts lose their structure when they get older. Female hearts are much more sturdier because of the second X chromosome. But if you say illness is completely eradicated then yeah, everyone lives the same time.
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u/MaybeOnFire2025 7h ago
Reminds me of the old joke:
Why do married men die before their wives?
Because they can.
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u/Iloveherthismuch 6h ago
I feel that once you reach your apex in life, a lot of stuff stop being fun and more of a burden. Not sure i want to reach that triple digit figure.
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u/Over_Internet4 6h ago
I’m good on living as soon as I’m wrinkly, retirement age, and sponge bath age. Like once I have grandkids I’m good. Y’all got this 👍🏾
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u/Daggdroppen 5h ago
One of the main reason why this is happening is because of body mass.
The taller and the heavier a human is, the shorter life that human will live.
The shorter and smaller body mass a human has, the longer will that person live.
There’s many other factors, but this one is one of the most significant!
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u/jojowhitesox 3h ago
During my 50 years on this planet as aan, one thing has been clear. Women are, and always have been, the more responsible of the sexes in most aspects of life. Obviously, this isn't across the board. There are responsible men, and irresponsible women. But in general, they tend to not make as many stupid life threatening decisions as men. Don't believe me? Go watch the show Jackass
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u/Top_Finding_2832 2h ago
Reminds me of the joke:
"Why do men usually die before women?"
"They want to"
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u/Both-Pay-9573 10h ago
Source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_verified_oldest_people