One day in March 1932, in his imposing Renaissance castle in Silesia, Wilhelm Hohen­zollern, the 49-year-old German former ...

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The world's oldest person is now 116-year-old Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, who was born 16 days after Tomiko Itooka.

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