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The world’s oldest person, US-born Maria Branyas Morera, has died at the age of 117, her family announced on social media. Guinness World Records also released a statement confirming her death on Monday at the age of 117 years 168 days, making her the eighth-oldest person with a verifiable age in history. “Maria passed away peacefully at the nursing home in Catalonia, Spain, where she resided for the past two decades,” GWR said.
” “I think longevity is also about being lucky. Luck and good genetics,” she added. Her birth on March 4, 1907, came less than four years after the Wright Brothers launched the first ever power-driven flight and two years before construction had even begun on the ill-fated Titanic. Morera was born a year after her parents emigrated to the US from Spain. Eight years later, the family moved back, arriving in Barcelona during World War I.
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