Peru's Andean mountains may hold the secret to longevity and the world's oldest ever person, if a new claim by state officials of a 124-year-old man born in 1900 are proven to be true.
LIMA, Peru - Peru 's Andean mountains may hold the secret to longevity and the world's oldest ever person, if a new claim by state officials of a 124-year-old man born in 1900 are proven to be true.The country's government has claimed that local resident Marcelino Abad from the central Peru vian region of Huanuco is 124, which would make him by a distance the oldest living person and even top the oldest ever independently verified human.
"Guinness World Records receives many applications from individuals who claim to be the oldest living person," a spokesperson for the body said in a written statement to Reuters.Verifying the claim would involve official documents and other evidence being scrutinized by an expert team to "prove their achievement beyond doubt.
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