The Melis siblings on the island of Sardinia are officially the world’s oldest with nine brothers and sisters clocking up a total of 818 years between them, Italian newspapers reported on Tuesday. The oldest sibling, Consolata, is 104 and has nine children, 24 grand-children and 25 great-grandchildren, the reports said, adding that the longevity of…
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