And the oldest person in the world died yesterday. Mitoyo Kawate was born in 1889, the same year the Eiffel Tower was completed. She died of pneumonia in a nursing home in Hiroshima, Japan. She was 114 years old.

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And the oldest person in the world died yesterday. Mitoyo Kawate was born in 1889, the same year the Eiffel Tower was completed. She died of pneumonia in a nursing home in Hiroshima, Japan. She was 114 years old.