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Who was the first person to live over 100 years old?
While humans have aspired to live long lives for millennia, records show that the first person verifiably documented to reach the age of 100 was a Norwegian farmer named Eilif Philipsen. However, in modern history, the title of the oldest person ever falls to someone else entirely. Who was the first person to live over 100 years old? The story of the first *verified* centenarian sheds light on the history of tracking extreme age and the evolution of modern record-keeping.
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Healthy Aging
