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TIL if 117-year-old Japanese supercentenarian Kane Tanaka lives for another 21 days, she will become the third oldest person in recorded history. Today she is in fifth place behind Nabi Tajima and Lucy Hannah who lived 20 and 8 days more than her respectively.

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