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RIP Jonathan the tortoise

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World's oldest known tortoise, Jonathan, dies aged 193

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c393xmpzjwko
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Perhaps they have something to teach us?
The industrial revolution cheapened everything.
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I wonder how they know it’s age.
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Answer is: they don’t. It’s an estate based on old photos that show him fully grown at the time they were taken. So they subtract 50 from that.

Probably shouldn’t be reported to three digits of specificity.
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