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Jose Aguinelo dos Santos claims to have been born on July 7th, 1888, the same year his home country, Brazil, abolished slavery. If his claim turns out to be true, dos Santos will officially be crowned the world’s oldest living person. According to The Guardian,

A team of experts arrived on his birth date after researching his past and interviewing him about his earliest memories, during which he was able to describe the slave compound perfectly.

The old people’s home now hopes to provide conclusive evidence that he is the world’s oldest man through ‘Carbon-14’ dating.

Jose Roberto Pires, the president of the retirement home, said they are determined to do the test even though it costs around £13,000.

But he added: “We are trying to find a way to do it without having to pay. This is very important. We believe the world’s oldest ever person is living here with us, and this is the only way we can really prove it.”