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You'll Never Guess How Old The World's Oldest Tree Is!

In human years, that is. Prepare yourself.

Rob Fairchild
Created by Rob Fairchild
On Dec 30, 2015
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Hello there, human. You are not a tree. This, however, this is a tree. This is the world's OLDEST tree:

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This tree is 9,500 years old. That's nine-thousand-five-hundred-years-old.

That is garunteed older than pretty much anything else you've ever encountered, other than things like the ocean. And stars.

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This tree is a Norwegian Spruce, fondly nicknamed "Old Tjikko." We're not sure how you pronounce that - but we're betting it rings with the importance of a being who has lived for a millennium.

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This tree was born in the Neolithic era. This tree remembers every single US President, every British Monarch, and the time before the Roman Empire was even a thing.

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The tree was discovered in 2004, by Professor Leif Kullman, who carbon dated the tree twelve times to prove his find.

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Happy 2016, Old Tjekko. May you live for another thousand years!

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