Worlds oldest man dies

He might have been the worlds oldest man, but it turns out he might not have been the oldest human.

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"According to Mrs Amash, she was born 120 years ago - a claim, if confirmed, that would make her the oldest person in the world."

""Yes, I am the oldest person in the world," she says, her family crowding around her.

"I eat, I drink, and I take showers. I hope to keep going for another 10 years.""

He would have been im his fifties during World War II. He would have been 77 for the moon landing nearly 40 years ago.