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by Tsagadai 2234 days ago
Probably also worth noting that there are [stories of it happening before](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah).
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If you read Genesis most people mentioned there lived 100s of years. This most likely is an artifact of years corresponding to moon cycles (aka months) in the earlier parts of the Old Testament.