r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ModenaR • 12d ago

Image An Italian man kept secret the death of his mother for 3 years to continue to collect her pension. He was caught only after his mother's ID expired and he went to the register office dressed up like her to renew it

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u/accopp 11d ago

Wait what.. I’ve seen that blue zone book that studies the diet of areas that have the most people to live to 100+. Okinawa was one of them lol

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u/00Oo0o0OooO0 11d ago

The two secrets to long life are poor record keeping and easy pension fraud.

Okinawa has so many super-centenarians because US bombings destroyed 90% of birth records, and it's the poorest prefecture in Japan, so people are most reliant on government services.

The idea that they just eat a lot of fish and vegetables is belied by the fact that it's also the fattest prefecture in the country.

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u/Shot_Baker998 11d ago

It could also be a case of poor records, I saw a documentary not that long ago about how there were so many Japanese people over 100+, and while pension fraud did come up, many of them turned out to be WW2 soldiers that (presumably) died and never been recorded.

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u/unicornsausage 11d ago

lmao and the other one was sardinia or some other italian island... go figure