Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Our time on this earth is often short.

Disease and unforeseen circumstances can make it even shorter.

Compared to the Red Sea Urchin, which is known to live for as long as 200 years, our lives

can be seen as a blip, a gust of wind coming in and blowing out in an instant.

It's rare for a person to live past 90 years of age, even rarer for 95, and 100 is reserved

for only the most special people, less than 1% of the American population lives to be 100,

and that percentage goes down from there as their ages go up.

But one man beat the odds.

If someone had written a novel about him, readers would have called it science fiction.

He was a man out of time, with firsthand knowledge of experiences that the rest of us could

only read about in books.

And his name was Sylvester.

His story is one of a kind.

Born on a North Carolina plantation in 1841, Sylvester's younger years were tough.

He was a slave, as were his parents, and he worked alongside them until he turned 19.

That's when his owner sold him to another plantation in Mississippi.

When the Civil War started, he assisted the owner in securing guns for the Confederate

Army, which automatically made the young slave a Confederate soldier.

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