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Who is the oldest person alive in the world?
Question Date: 2018-10-15
Answer 1:

According to Wikipedia, the oldest person who has ever lived (to our knowledge) was Jeanne Calmet, who lived until she was 122! (She died in 1997). Currently, the oldest living human is Kane Tanaka from Japan, who is 115 years old.

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