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Pat Bates, one of the porters at Worthing Hospital, is 6ft 11ins.
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Tallest man in the world is now said to be Bao Xishun at 7ft 9ins, who recently saved the lives of two dolphins in China by reaching into their stomachs to pull out shards of plastic they had swallowed. Tallest man in the world was Radhouane Charbib from Tunisia at 7ft 8.9ins. Robert Wadlow stood 8' 11" tall, was the biggest man who ever lived, was born in Alton USA in 1918, and died in 1940 aged 22 from an infected foot blister. |
World's tallest living man is 8'4" Leonid Stadnik.
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Yao Ming is a basketball player on the Chinese Olympic team and is 7ft 6ins tall.
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Here is a large woman from Holland. She is over 6' 6" tall and weighs 320pounds or 146kg / 23stones!
The tallest women in the world is Sandy Allen she is 7ft 7 1/4 inch or Yao Defen 7ft 8 from China. On television 13 May 08 neither of these women were very fit. One of the reasons why people grow very tall is pituitary giantism which is a tumour on the pituitary gland. Hussein has had treatment for this and he should stop growing. Tall people have all sorts of natural advantages. We know we are superior. The Tall Persons Club has a website at http://www.tallclub.co.uk/ |
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