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Methuselah:
(plural: ‘Methuselahs‘)
(According to the Bible) the grandfather of Noah who was supposed to have lived for 969 years;
a very very old man, living for more than a hundred years,
a living Methuselah — Walter Breuning, the USA, 113 years old in 2010
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There are five villages in the world, named ‘longevity villages’, where one can see more number of Methuselahs!
(i.e. the people in these villages live to be very very old because of their diet and the weather in those places — for information on this topic, please visit: http://www.china.org.cn/english/health/188808.htm)
{Note: ‘Methuselah’ is also used to refer to a wine bottle that can hold eight normal bottles.}
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