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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The oldest creature ever found was Ming the clam at an admirable 507 years old.
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Between 2007 and 2012, Bill Gates gave away $28 billion; saving 6 million lives.
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The pea aphid insect explodes itself thereby sacrificing its life to protect its relatives from predators.
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In 1542, French aristocrat Marguerite De La Rocque survived being marooned for 2 years alone on a remote island off the coast of Quebec.
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