Some of which staunch ain’t so. Assist in mind these two unbelievable “info” which I learned while reading a couple of Superboy complications from 1954-1955:
I can imagine a baby believing those issues, however an adult needs to be staunch impartial a miniature of extra skeptical. Women in standard dwell longer than males (about 7 years longer the final I heard), so it’d be rather elegant to be taught that a man no doubt held the title for the oldest documented residing human. We would moreover, given advances in tablets and corresponding advances in reasonable life expectancy, for the oldest individual ever to me extra contemporary. And no doubt, in step with Wikipedia, the peaceable file for the oldest individual is a Frenchwoman named Jeanne Calment, who passed away staunch 17 years ago at age 122. Basically, of the ten longest-residing folks, simplest one (the tenth) used to be a man.
As for Drakenberg, easy math unearths that even with the dates given he did no longer “total 146 years,” however 145. And this net sites unearths why that age is suspect at simplest:
The certificates moreover states the names of Drakenberg’s fogeys, and of the farm at which
he used to be born. In the postscript of the latest edition of Drakenberg’s biography from 1972
Paul G. Ørberg disproves all the info listed in this certificates (Ørberg 1972). The vicar
of Skee in 1732 used to be Johan Schoug and the vicar in 1626 used to be Christoffer Lauritzen
Friis; the 2 vicars named in the doc maintain apparently by no means existed. The farm on
which Drakenberg had allegedly been born had staunch been in-constructed 1626, and used to be owned
by any individual else; no hint would possibly perchance well perchance moreover be learned of the folks named as Drakenberg’s fogeys
and in a roundabout draw no church register going relieve to 1626 exists from the church of Skee, and
it is doubtful whether one ever has. In other words the certificates proving the unbelievable
age of Drakenberg is a forgery, although a essentially a hit one.
As for the male deer bot fly Wikipedia notes:
In 1938 Irving Langmuir, recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, examined the reveal in direct and refuted the estimate. Amongst his particular criticisms were:
- To inspire a trail of 800 miles per hour, the 0.3-gram fly would
maintain had to philosophize extra than 150% of its physique weight in meals every
2nd; - The fly would maintain produced an audible sonic boost;
- The supersonic fly would had been invisible to the bare leer; and
- The impression trauma of any such fly colliding with a human physique would resemble that of a gunshot injure
And no doubt the peaceable estimate for this miniature fellow is a slightly sedate 25 mph.
Right here’s one other bit from a text portion on how the toys of the Fifties were making engaging teens for the jobs of the following day:
Now that would moreover appear impartial a miniature sexist, however this used to be the Fifties when Dad went off to work and Mom took care of the teens. Basically, my mother (earlier than she acquired married) had her first job as a switchboard operator. Nevertheless I no doubt hope no younger girls practiced too hard on this toy, as the switchboard used to be already on its means out.