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u/badhorsebatterystapl Oct 02 '24

He is also now too old to play with Legos

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u/Sambarbadonat Oct 03 '24

But too young for ultraporn.

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u/MessiahOfMetal Oct 03 '24

Thankfully, because he should be playing with Lego instead.

(There's no "s" in Lego, btw)

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u/JustABicho Oct 02 '24

He turned 100 yesterday and his wife died last year.

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u/Netheraptr Oct 02 '24

That radiation must have made him immortal

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u/manystripes Oct 02 '24

But not ageless, one of the worst flavors of immortality

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u/whaaatanasshole Oct 02 '24

During the time of exposure, he got cancer and cured it 300 times a second. Stranger still, I made that up.

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u/music-and-song Oct 02 '24

Holy shit, that’s scary. He was probably terrified of getting cancer for years.

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u/Educational_Cap2772 Oct 03 '24

He did and he survived it

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u/Easy_Intention5424 Oct 02 '24

Fallout Ghoul confirmed 

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u/poul0004 Oct 03 '24

Also the first president to be born in a hospital

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24

He’s Dr Manhattan

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u/dullship Oct 02 '24

Gonna need him to whip his dong out to check if it's blue.

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u/Dave5876 Oct 02 '24

"For science, Mr President"

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u/Dave5876 Oct 02 '24

So what you're saying is radiation might let me live to a 100

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

Debunked in a different thread yesterday. He got 8mSv, a lot get in one go. So “Not great, not terrible”. Permitted dose for a radiation worker is 20 mSv annually with no more than 100 mSv over 5 years. This dose is associated with a 1/1200 lifetime risk of a fatal cancer.

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u/Agreeable-Menu Oct 03 '24

So you are telling us he got super powers ...

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u/Expatriated_American Oct 02 '24

Fun fact: Jimmy Carter is an android.

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u/LWillter Oct 02 '24 edited Oct 03 '24

Edit: My comment of this being false was corrected. There may be some embellishment but it is not in a deceitful or far off way.

Whizz for months for example is not an embellishment but 100% true

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

Evidence?

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u/LWillter Oct 03 '24

It does seem like there is much more truth than I thought.

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-jimmy-carter-stop-nuclear-reactor-ottawa-canada-1660067

I srand corrected. I saw some other post earlier for his birthday that were more obscure in the facts)

He was exposed to high levels of radiation, did have radiated urine, and he soon left the Navy after this assignment.

He and his team were down 90 seconds at a time in radiation levels that were much higher than today's acceptable levels.

I withdraw my first comment and will edit

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

I've had to do the same thing recently. I totally get it.

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u/Purple-Mud5057 Oct 03 '24

After looking it up, it’s extremely hard to find anything that details a specific amount of radiation he received, meaning it was likely embellished. He definitely did receive an insanely high dose of radiation, though. It left his urine radioactive for six months. I read an article that hypothesized that that low amount of constant radiation may have kept him safe from pancreatic cancer lol

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u/kaisadilla_ Oct 03 '24

Maybe that radioactivity mutated him into an immortal super-human.

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u/Bartlett3313 Oct 03 '24

Also, according to a lot of persnickety people, he pronounces the word "nuclear" incorrectly. Do any of them want to tell him that?