How tall was the tallest man in the world?
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Robert Pershing Wadlow\n1918-1940 \n\nCollege Avenue, across from\nthe Alton Museum of History and Art\n\nRobert Wadlow was a pituitary giant, someone who grows enormously due to an overactive pituitary gland. He was born in Alton, Illinois on February 22, 1918, a completely normal baby, 8 ½ pounds. However, by the time he was a year old he weighed twice normal, 44 pounds. By nine years he'd reached 6', 2", by sixteen he hit 7', 10", and weighed nearly 400 pounds. At the time of his death in 1940 he was 8', 11.1" tall and weighed 439 pounds making him the world’s tallest person in history, according to the Guinness Book of Records, surpassing the record previously held by an 8', 4" inch Irishman who died in 1877.\n\nTallest man - living\nXi Shun (China, b. 1951), measured 7 ft 8.95 in (2 m 36.1 cm) as a result of six measurements taken on January 15, 2005, at Chifeng City Hospital, Inner Mongolia, China.\n\nMeet the tallest woman alive:\n\nDe-Fen Yao from China who supposedly stands at 7'8 1/2" (2.35 m)
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Currently, I believe Yao Ming is the tallest at 7'6".\n\nThere have been at least two players who were 7'7" (Manute Bol and Georghe Muresan) but both are no longer in the league.
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Mostly, they're the average height. During the middle ages the average height for men in Europe was 5'4"-5'7", judging by the length of the armor they wore.
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Andre the Giant, whose true height was actually around 6'10, was the best big man in the business.\n\nHe pretty much knew how strong he really was and was able to hold back his punches and chops UNLESS you angered him.
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Mount Everest in the Himalayas is widely regarded as the tallest mountain in the world. However it's height is only from Sea level.\n\n"Hawaii's Mauna Kea, though, rises an astonishing 33,476 feet (10,203 meters) from the depths of the Pacific Ocean floor. Measuring from base to peak, Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain on earth."
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I don't know about tallest, but highest:\n1) Everest\n2) K2\n3)Kangchenjunga\n4)Makalu\n5)Cho Oyu
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wide variety of factors influence human body dimensions, including the following categories. "Clinical normality" in height is defined as about the range 54"-79". The average stature worldwide is 64.96" ´ 3.15" for men and 60.5" ´ 2.95" for women.\nshortest people in the world are the Efe & Basua "pygmies" in Africa. There men are 56.61" ´ 2.79" for men and 54.01 ´ 3.07"for women. The largest are in southern Sudan, are the Dinka Nilotles with men at 72" ´ 2.4" and women at 66.49" ´ 2.28". The smallest living person is 29 1/2", a male Portuguese professional drummer. The smallest person ever recorded was a Dutch woman at 23.2" tall (1876-1895). The tallest living person is a Pakistani male at 94.09" tall. The tallest ever recorded was an American man at 107 1/2" tall (1918-1940). (He had to eat ~ 8000 calories per day).
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The tower stands 300 m (986 feet) high, which is about 108 stories. Including the 24 m (72 feet) antenna, the structure is 324 m (1058 feet) high. At the time of its construction in 1889, the Eiffel Tower was the tallest structure in the world, a title it retained until 1930, when New York City's Chrysler Building (319 m/1046 feet tall) was completed (although the Eiffel Tower was still taller if the respective spires of the two structures were excluded).
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I think you mean tallest.\n\nRobert Wadlow 8'11 3/4"
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It is exactly 8ft 11.1 in. He is Robert Pershing Wadlow (USA).
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Ask that giant ape. It is pretty freakin' tall!
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It's Yao Ming. He's 7 feet and 6 inches tall, being the tallest player in the NBA.
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Tallest Man - Living \n   \nWHO: \nXi Shun \nWHAT: \n2 m 36.1 cm\n(7 ft 8.95 in) \nWHERE: \nChifeng, Inner Mongolia, China. \nWHEN: \nJanuary 15, 2005 \n  \nXi Shun (China, b. 1951), measured 7 ft 8.95 in (2 m 36.1 cm) as a result of six measurements taken on January 15, 2005, at Chifeng City Hospital, Inner Mongolia, China.\n\n\nBeating the previous holder Radhouane Charbib (Tunisia) by just 2 mm (0.07 in), Xi Shun claims that his height was normal for his age until he was 16. As a comparison, his father stood at 5 ft 10.8 in (1.8 m) and his mother was 5 ft 2.8 in (1.6 m) tall.\n\nIn his late teens, he experienced a growth spurt that, while not normal, was seemingly without any cause. Doctors who examined him in 2005 discovered no evidence of gigantism or acromegaly, and could not explain why he grew so tall so fast (it took him just seven years to reach his record height).\n\nFollowing a career in the Army – he was recruited for his basketball skills! – he returned to Inner Mongolia and works as a herdsman. He also hires himself out for publicity stunts for a local restaurant and tailor.\n\nHe currently resides with his father and brother at Chifeng.\n \nTallest Woman - Living \n   \nWHO: \nSandy Allen \nWHAT: \n2.31 m (7 ft 7 in) \nWHERE: \nIndianapolis, Indiana, USA \nWHEN: \nAs of 1999 \n  \nSandy Allen was a 2.95-kg (6.5-lb) baby, and her abnormal growth began soon after her birth in June 1955. By the age of 10 she stood 1.905 m (6 ft 3 in) tall, and was 2.16 m (7 ft 1 in) by 16 years old. Sandy had a dream to break free of a world, that she felt she had outgrown. In her first letter to Guinness World Records in 1974 she wrote, "I would like to get to know someone that is approximately my height. It is needless to say my social life is practically nil and perhaps the publicity from your book may brighten my life." The accolade did help to bring about a reversal of fortunes for the Indiana secretary. First, there was an offer from film director Federico Fellini to take a role in his film Casanova in 1975, and then her first date with a 7-ft Illinois man. On July 14, 1977, she went into hospital for a pituitary gland operation to stop further growth. Nowadays poor circulation and weak leg muscles mean she is dependent on a wheel chair.
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The Mt.Everest is the highest....\nMount Everest 8850m (29035 ft) Asia \n\nMount Kilimanjaro 5963m (19563 ft) Africa \n\nThe Matterhorn (Switzerland) 4470m (14654 ft)
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Robert Wadlow I think...he was like almost 9 ft
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< The tallest man in medical history for whom there is irrefutable evidence is Robert Pershing Wadlow. He was born at Alton, Illinois, USA, on February 22, 1918, and when he was last measured on June 27, 1940, was found to be 2.72 m (8 ft 11.1 in) tall.
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same as above against that tall guy, heres a link to a jack dempsy documentary that actually shows the whole fight, Jack Dempsy defies height you will have to buy the video which I own its great, heres the link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6303446469/qid=1147552184/sr=8-11/ref=pd_bbs_11/103-3286044-0652628?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=404272