***Jeanne Calment, a French woman, achieved an incredible feat of living to age 122, thus earning the honor of being the world’s oldest person on record***
My guess is that they never heard of Methuselah!
My mom is celebrating her 101st birthday in a few days. My sister, who was terribly ill with just about everything, totally sedentary, and smoked three packs a day lived to just a few weeks shy of 71.