Oldest Person

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    Japan's Kane Tanaka is now the world's oldest living person at age 116

    Guinness World Records held an official ceremony at Kane Tanaka's nursing home in Fukuoka, Japan, to mark the news.

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    The one surprising vegetable America's oldest person, 113, ate daily

    Some family members chalk up Lessie Brown’s health to a particular root vegetable: the humble yam, which she ate daily until she was nearly 110. 

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    Oldest American, New Jersey’s Adele Dunlap, Dies at Age 114

    Adele Dunlap, the oldest person in America, has died at age 114. In July 2016, Dunlap became the country’s oldest person. “She never went out jogging or anything like that,” her son, Earl Dunlap Jr., said about his mother at the time, according to the Associated Press.

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    Thriving on raw eggs, world's oldest person marks 117th birthday in Italy

    Emma Morano, thought to be the world's oldest person and the last to be born in the 1800s, celebrated her 117th birthday on Tuesday, still swearing by her diet of two raw eggs a day. Morano was born in November 1899, four years before the Wright brothers first took to the air. Friends, neighbors and her doctor gathered in her small apartment in the northern town of Verbania, on the shores of Lake Maggiore, to mark the latest milestone, presenting her with a large white birthday cake.