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119 Years Old and Winning Marathons—Or Not?
Dharam Pal Singh, a champion marathon runner from rural India, is 119 years old. At least that’s the age he claims to be. He refers to his passport, voter ID card, and tax-identification card—all government-issued identity documents—to prove his date of birth, which all of the documents list as 1897. But he lacks a birth certificate, likely due to the fact that they were not regularly issued in remote villages in India at the time of Singh’s birth.
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