Aging Facts

If you're over 100 years old, there's an 80% chance you're a woman.

In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, a dramatic increase from just nine percent in 1999.

White wine gets darker as it ages while red wine gets lighter.

Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink.

There are still 5 people living who were born in the 1800s - and they're all women.

In Japan, more adult diapers are sold than baby diapers.

The first two years of a dog's life are equal to 24 human years.

The lense of the eye continues to grow throughout a person's life.

In older people, memory is best early in the morning and then declines during the late afternoon.

From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.

Karl Pillemer, a professor, performed a study on thousands of elderly people and what advice they had about life. On happiness, there was a consensus: “the elders viewed happiness as a choice, not the result of how life treats you.”

The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.

In 1965, French lawyer André-François Raffray agreed to pay 90-year-old Jeanne Calment a monthly fee for her apartment in Arles — he'd get it when she died. Calment lived to 122 years and 164 days, becoming the oldest verified person in history. Raffray died in 1995 at age 77, having paid more than double the apartment's value. His widow was legally required to keep paying until Calment finally died in 1997.