Carbon dating may be used to verify age of ‘126-year-old’ Brazilian

A Brazilian rest home for the elderly believes it may be home to the world’s oldest person.

The former agricultural labourer born in a runaway slave community is identified in documents stating he was born 126 years ago at a time when Brazil still had an emperor.

Nascido em quilombo, homem de 126 anos pode ser o + velho do mundo. José Aguinelo dos Santos nasceu em 1888, no Ceará pic.twitter.com/213yXpzzVQ

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