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Ignacio Cubilla Banos, 111 Year-old Man
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A Cuban man celebrated his 111th birthday on Thursday by counting his monetary gifts and smoking a cigar. Ignacio Cubilla Banos enjoyed the festivities at his home in Havana surrounded by family.
He has 11 children, 40 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
Banos, a former sugar factory worker, took some celebratory puffs on a Cuban cigar and showed off a wad of cash a son who lives in Miami had sent as a present before digging into a huge cake. Born in 1900, Banos only missed seeing twelve days of the 1900s. Banos' age means he's already lived half a life longer than his average countryman.
According to the World Health Organization, the life expectancy for a male born in Cuba today is 76. But Mr Banos lags behind the world's oldest man, American Walter Breuning, by three-and-a-half years. Breuning is 114.
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