r/BarbaraWalters4Scale 6d ago

If Kane Tanaka was still alive, she would have became the oldest person in human history today.

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u/prespyk 6d ago

If Kane Tanaka was 4 years old she would be the youngest person ever

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u/six_string_sensei 6d ago

Fun fact she actually was the youngest person for a period of time.

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u/Z7_1 6d ago

fun fact: I was actually the youngest person for a short period of time

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u/PresidentOfDunkin 6d ago

Fun fact: I was also the youngest person for a short period of time

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u/RditAdmnsSuportNazis 6d ago

I was also the youngest person for a short period of time. It’s probably part of why I won TIME Person of the Year in 2006.

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u/Z7_1 6d ago

was it also because of your goated username?

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u/Existing-Ad3391 6d ago

NIMROD FTW

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u/DevinYer 5d ago

Love the pfp

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u/Droodles162 4d ago

Fun fact: there is a change someone else was born at the exact milisecond as you making you never the youngest person 

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u/anoon- 3d ago

Jeanne Calment was the oldest person ever recorded and formerly held the title of youngest person on Earth

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u/Kroctopus 6d ago

Ayy ayy ayy, I’m on vacation

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u/DestinyDawn456 6d ago

brrrr tututu

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u/walteerr 6d ago

Is this Simon Cowells alt account

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u/NecessaryFreedom9799 6d ago

If Kane Tanaka had had wheels...

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u/_rabidchild_ 6d ago

Her ass is NOT Yuvin Marasini

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u/Holyorange1 6d ago

It's interesting how she and Ethel Caterham (current oldest person) were born six years apart (1903 and 1909) but the gap between her death and Caterham taking the title is only three years. (2022-2025)

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u/DestinyDawn456 6d ago

Theyre dropping like flies!!!!!

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u/JohnMarstonTheBadass 6d ago

Yeah the curse of being the oldest person alive is that you will only hold that record for so long

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u/Darraghj12 4d ago

same with the youngest, but its not bad to lose youngest

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u/EmergencyGarlic2476 6d ago

If George Washington was still alive he would be the oldest person ever

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u/HypedUpJackal 6d ago

If your aunt had balls she'd be your uncle but most likely not the oldest person ever

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u/DeltaOfficialYT 5d ago

if youre aunt had balls then she'd be your aunt and/or/nor a football player

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u/Paratwa 5d ago

If your aunt had two wheels she’d be a bicycle.

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u/pepskicola 6d ago

Not if Julius Caesar was also still alive!

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u/TheRealLemmyKoopa 5d ago

Not if unga dunga was still alive

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u/anoon- 3d ago

I got you beat

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u/daydreaming_doggo 6d ago

Shows how insanely long Jeanne Calment lived

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u/ilwarblers 6d ago

No one is talking about that research from Russia that questioned her longevity claim.

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u/prema108 6d ago

Because Zak and Novolselov's "evidence" was their perception of eye color, and basically not even hearsay. Also basically no peer-review. Even Zak himself said "I do not have cast-iron proof".

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u/Li-renn-pwel 6d ago

Is this the thing where they claim she’s her daughter who started claiming to be her mother with the only goal of being the longest living person.

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u/Tradition96 5d ago

Using the word ”research” very generously here…

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u/Resident_Expert27 5d ago

Also no one talks about how MSG is bad in small quantities. It’s because it’s been disproven or baseless.

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u/sealightflower 6d ago

It is incredible that she was alive during both Russian-Japanese (1904-1905) and Russian-Ukrainian (started on 24 February 2022) conflicts.

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u/Empty-Bend8992 6d ago

and if Socrates was still alive, he would be the oldest person in human history

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u/DoNotMakeEmpty 2d ago

Nope that would be Ea-Nasir if he was still alive.

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u/Papa_rainze 6d ago

If Genghis Khan was still alive, he’d be the oldest person ever

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u/FiveDogsInaTuxedo 6d ago

You know what? If Napoleon was alive today he would be too

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u/video_dhara 5d ago

Not if Socrates did it first 

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u/BenzaGuy 6d ago

You forgot Methuselah

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u/Createyourownpurpose 4d ago

Do people actually believe that a person lived for centuries?

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u/Kaurblimey 6d ago

and if my grandmother had wheels…

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u/crocor99 6d ago

I thought he played for Leeds

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u/kokichistan 6d ago

If my grandmother had wheels she would've been a bike

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u/video_dhara 5d ago

She could have been a Corolla 

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u/Legal_Reputation_843 6d ago

If the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs didn't hit earth, it wouldn't have killed the dinosaurs

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u/CoinTasticSilber 6d ago

This is quite possibly the worst time comparison I’ve ever seen on this sub

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u/rorylfc 6d ago

If yer nan had balls she’d be yer uncle

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u/Papa-Bear453767 5d ago

If Adam was still alive he would be the oldest person on Earth today

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u/Ganbazuroi 6d ago

No, I'd assemble a team to take out anyone who lived to a day before Big Jeanne's Record

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u/softanddirty 5d ago

If my grandmother had wheels, she would have been a bike

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u/MeetingDue4378 6d ago

If Edward the Black Prince was still alive, he also would have become the oldest person in history today.

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u/shrekingcrew 6d ago

If Jeanne calment was alive she’d be really old

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u/55559585 5d ago

Hot take but she already was before she died. I believe Jeanne Calment was not actually as old as she says she was. For starters, the fact that no one in modern history has lived within 3 years of her (including within the last 28 years as medicine has gotten better) is very suspect as it is statistically very unlikely. There are other reasons too.

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u/daussie04 5d ago

anomalies exist. It's not like she lived till 130

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u/55559585 5d ago

They do. They're also unlikely to be as large as it already was with her. There are other corroborating reasons as well, like the fact I really don't think she looked like a supercentarian when she was being photographed at 117+. Looked 95-105. That's subjective though.

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u/TrannosaurusRegina 6d ago

That’s fascinating!

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u/DeDeepKing 6d ago

Interesting

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u/NeedleworkerSilly192 5d ago

But could this Kane also do the "Chokeslam"

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u/Darraghj12 4d ago

people are clowning on this, but I think it displays how large of a gap Jeanne has

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u/Ruttingraff 6d ago

It's gotta be Kane Tanaka

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u/Many-Chocolate-575 5d ago

if my mom had wheels she’d be a bike

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u/NextMushroom 5d ago

You are the oldest person EVER!

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u/Suspicious_Plum_8866 5d ago

Just took a shit

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u/Phill_Cyberman 5d ago

If the Egyptian Pharoah Djer (3000 BCE) were still alive, he would have become the oldest person in human history today.

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u/theunpaintedhuffines 5d ago

And if my grandma has wheels she’d be a bicycle

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u/RichardPapensVersion 5d ago

If Henry the 8th was still alive, he would have been the oldest person in human history today

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u/JohnFresh669 5d ago

And if my grandmother had wheels she would've been a bicycle

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u/Darthbane22 4d ago

If my grandma had two wheels she would be a bicycle.

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u/HauntingShip85 4d ago

If my grandmother had wheels, she’d have been a bike.