A former coal miner regarded by the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s oldest man recently died in Wales at the age of 112. John Evans, whose birth certificate recorded an Aug. 19, 1877, birth date, began working in the coal mines when he was 13 and stopped when he was 73 because National Coal Board retirement rules required it.
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