Take a look at this Gump...you're off the hook. Now you can quit complaining about how old you are:
Zircon crystal sample believed to date back 4.4 billion years
Sunday, April 10, 2005 Posted: 7:59 AM EDT (1159 GMT)
Discovered in Australia in 1984, this speck of zircon crystal is believed to be the oldest known piece of Earth.
MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) -- Call it much ado about almost nothing.
To create buzz about an otherwise arcane subject, the University of Wisconsin-Madison showed off a tiny speck of zircon crystal believed to be the oldest known piece of Earth at about 4.4 billion years old.
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