World's oldest person dies at 116.

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<p><a href=“http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/World/The_United_States/Worlds_oldest_person_dies_at_116/articleshow/791573.cms[/url]”>http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/World/The_United_States/Worlds_oldest_person_dies_at_116/articleshow/791573.cms&lt;/a&gt;

Holy hell! She was directly responsible for 567 people. I am not even responsible for one person yet. :(</p>

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<p>116 years…pretty good if I say so. What’s even more amazing is that her grandchildren are probably in their 70s.</p>

<p>What’s scary is how few World War I vets are left. The new record-holder is one, but I think there’s only about 50 or so left in the world now.</p>

<p>That goes for 1800’s born people in general. You have to give a nice round of applause to these folks, they’ve lived in three different centuries.</p>

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<p>They had recent photos of her on our evening news last night. She looked amazing. What a life!</p>

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<p>Out of curiosity, did she set a record for oldest African-American? I for some reason remember seeing that as one of the records among supercenturians and I don’t remember if she got the title or if someone else did.</p>

<p>Interesting, the oldest person is now a man from Puerto Rico (who served in WWI with the USA). Sort of rare to have a guy occupy that title as women usually live longer. I also read this old guy (del Toro is his name, if I recall) eats cod, corn, and milk everyday. Maybe I should try this diet?</p>

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<p>Cod, corn and milk every single day? Ouch. For some reason people from islands seem to me to live longer. Look at Okinawa, people live longer there than everywhere else.</p>

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<p>In the late 1970s or early 1980s a fellow named Charlie (can’t recall exactly) was believed to be the oldest living African-American at that time. I think he passed at nearly 120 years. He claimed to have recalled being taken by slavetraders from Africa as a boy.</p>

<p>The most interesting tale of long-life that I’ve heard thus far is that of the famous Delany sisters of suburban New York City. Neither ever married and never had children, both lived to be well over 100, and died within months (if not weeks) of one another. One was a public school teacher for decades. Hilariously, when she was in her 80s the schools’ pension officials suddenly stopped sending her monthly retirement check. When she telephoned to inquire about the problem she subsequently received a letter from the school district demanding that she appear before them and prove that she was still alive.</p>