So true. I'm fortunate that both my parents have long-life family histories. Both families were old-fashioned Southern Baptists who didn't drink, smoke, dance or, apparently, believe in having fun of any kind :-). But that just kept them from messing up their good genetic luck. I'm an old-fashioned atheist but have chosen to never drink, smoke or do drugs just because I never saw a compelling reason to. Now I'm pushing 60 and have so far had zero serious health issues. Hoping to keep a good thing going.

In a population of equally vulnerable genetics and stochastic outcomes, there will be families that all live long.

We are wired to attribute that to something.

ICYMI the low fat diet craze was built on lies and corruption, fat isn't bad for you. Sugar is.

Take your current age and work backwards that same number of days, months and years before your birth. Every year something else remarkable is added.

At my current backwards age, World War II is the best part of two decades away; the UK is still recovering from World War I. Rocket 88, the first rock and roll song, won't be written for nearly another three decades. Women still can't vote in the UK, the Wall Street Crash is several years away.

When my father (who knew one of the most important men in medical history in his younger days and who was working in medicine not long after the NHS was founded) died, his backwards age reached back before the germ theory of modern medicine.

Another interesting game is to use your "oocyte age" — about 32 weeks before your mother was born is roughly when the oocyte developed that led to your egg. In my case this too is before World War II started.

And of course, there's Sir Doctor Brian May.

Many of the early electronic musicians were basically engineers (you had to be, to use some of those old synthesizers).