what fact about our current world would freak people out if it were a newspaper headline a century ago?

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Some news that would be completely mundane today but scary or shocking in the past.

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For Africa and Asia it did.

Again this is very simply not true. You are imagineering, not objectively looking at data. Which countries specifically do you see doubling life span? I'm not seeing it.