Today, the officially tallest living man on Earth is a 41-year-old man from Turkey. He is 251 cm tall and developed quite naturally until the age of 10. However, he is more than 20 cm short of the tallest man in history.
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The tallest man in the world. Robert Wadlow died of a foot infection
The title of the tallest man in history belongs to Robert Wadlow from Alton, Illinois. He was born on February 22, 1918. At birth, he weighed less than 4 kg. He grew every month and it soon turned out that he was starting to stand out significantly from other children of a similar age. As a one-year-old child, he already weighed 30 kg. In the third grade of primary school, he was already taller than all the teachers and his father, he was over 2 meters tall before his thirteenth birthday.
Due to his height, his body needed three times more calories per day than the average man. He also needed tailor-made clothes, and his shoes could cost $100 a pair, which in the 1930s was a staggering sum. , became the star of a footwear company. As part of the promotion of its products, he visited over 800 cities and towns in the United States. He was in relatively good health, with only a problem with his feet measuring almost 47 cm, which corresponds to a shoe size of 77. He had no feeling in them, so he was not aware of the abrasions until visible blisters appeared. On July 4, 1940, an infection developed in the abrasion on his foot. The infection lasted for several days, even an emergency blood transfusion and surgery did not help. Wadlow was treated at the hotel, as the hospital in Michigan lacked beds of the right size. On July 15, 1940, Robert Wadlow died. When he was last measured on June 27, 1940, his height was 272 cm. This result gave him a place in
The tallest woman in history. She was 246 cm tall and was unable to stand up straight
Zeng Jinlian was born on June 26, 1964 in China, in the village of Yujiang, Hunan Province. When she was four months old, she began to grow at an unnatural pace. Even before her 4th birthday, she was 156 cm tall. When she turned 13, she was already 217 cm. Jinlian struggled with many health problems due to her height, including diabetes, and most importantly, severe scoliosis. Because of the deformed spine, he is unable to stand straight.
On February 13, 1982, she went to . She was 246.3 cm tall at the time, her hands were 25.5 cm and her feet were 35.5 cm. The day she entered record history is also the day she died. Zeng Jinlian was 17 years old. Interestingly, her family was relatively small. The father was 163 cm tall, the mother 156 cm, and the brother at the age of 18 was 158 cm tall.
Source: Gazeta
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