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RE: Who Was the Last Know-It-All? Considering Kircher, Goethe, Humboldt, and Young

in #history7 years ago

In the time when oral tradition reigned, some of those people were incredible at remembering the stories. I'm not convinced they remembered the right number of zeroes for their ages, though. :)

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😁😁😁 Yes, you are right...Tooo many zeroes...I saw a documentary where those people not that were living so long, but they were very tall, from our perspective, giants...You see even now in Pakistan, Hunza people live for 160-200 years and women give birth at the age of 60