Guinness World Records declared Israel Kristal, an Auschwitz survivor, the oldest living man in the world Friday. He is 112 years and 179 days old, as of Saturday.
Kristal isn't the oldest living person in the world, The New York Times reports. That honor belongs to an American woman named Susannah Mushatt Jones, who is 115 years and 250 days old.
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