According to official documents, Luo Meizhen was born in 1885, which would make her 127 years old when she died in 2013 and the oldest person ever to have lived.
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There's a woman named Veronica Seider who had vision 20x better than average. She could identify people more than a mile (1.6km) away.
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A woman named Rachel Krishevsky who died at age 99 had 1,400 direct descendants.
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The first foreigner to become a samurai was an African slave.
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