Travolution Autumn Conf: Factoids #2 and #3

November 01, 2007

BSkyB's Charlie Redmayne came up with these gems while discoursing on the increase in internet usage among over-50s.

Two-thirds of the people who have ever lived to over 65 are alive now
We only retire at 65 because that's the age that Otto von Bismarck, creator of the first pension scheme, decided on. The average life expectancy for a German at the time was 47...

Nathan Midgley

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