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Gramma, who died at the zoo on Thursday, was believed to have been born in 1884, when Chester A. Arthur was in the White House.

The San Diego Zoo's oldest resident, a Galapagos tortoise named Gramma, died Nov. 20. She was estimated to be 141 years old.

No one knows exactly when Gramma was born. But if the estimated birth year of 1884 is accurate, Chester Arthur occupied the Oval Office and there were only 39 states at the time.

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