Tourists know Iceland for its spectacular landscape, geothermal pools and strange cuisine. But experts say the Nordic nation is special for another reason: people there live longer than almost anywhere else in the world.
Year after year, Iceland is one of the top-ranked countries for life expectancy. Its citizens survive to an average of 83, outlasting the residents of richer, better-educated and warmer corners of the globe.
This doesn't come as a shock to Stefan Thorliefsson, who is six months shy of the century mark and still starts every morning with a swim in the outdoor pool he built himself in 1943 in the fishing village of Neskapstadur.
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