The oldest-known person in the world, Kane Tanaka of Japan, has died at the age of 119. Host Marco Werman discusses her longevity and the lives of other supercentenarians with Thomas Perls, a professor at Boston University School of Medicine and founder of the New England Centenarian Study.
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