# If you get to ask one question for a person from the 1800s, what would it be?

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> [@notfrommensa](#):
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> Odd that the 1st and 6th oldest living person were born March 5th.

Not really. Fairly short odds, actually, that any two people share a birthday. That’s why the [Birthday Problem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem) blows people’s minds.

I’d ask her if she still has, you know, _urges_.

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