John Tinniswood, the world’s oldest man, has passed away at the age of 112. He died on Monday, 25 November, at his care home in Southport, surrounded by “music and love,” his family confirmed. Megan Bruce, a Guinness World Records adjudicator, attributed his long and happy life to "luck" and taking things in "moderation." Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I don't know if I had any expectations but he was so down-to-earth, such a lovely man,
00:05he was also so positive, just the little things which we chatted about, he was just so happy and
00:11content I think, he was a really lovely gentleman. But he did talk a lot about moderation, he was
00:17like you don't want to do anything into excess, like too much walking, too much eating, he was
00:23very much about keeping things level and chilled, although he did say he did a lot of walking when
00:27he was younger so maybe that helped. It's quite tricky obviously when you're talking about people
00:33that are born in like the early 1900s, that's finding the documentation to prove they were
00:40born when they were born and documenting their life throughout the course of history to make
00:45sure that everything is sound and correct and can be verified, it's quite tricky, there's a lot of
00:49documentation to review but thankfully in John's case we were able to get lots of information and
00:56details about how wonderful his life was.