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Tallest Man Facts

The world's tallest man ever recorded in the history of mankind - Robert Wadlow, was born in Alton, Illinois, in 1918, and was 6 feet tall by the time he was even eight years old. He suffered from the disorder Gigantism that makes the lower portions of the body extremely large, while the head and torso remain at normal sizes. This is caused by a pituitary gland tumor that excretes large amounts of growth hormone, resulting in the disorder that is technically called as acromegalic gigantism. He reached a final height of 8 feet 11 inches at the age of twenty-one years, and finally died of an inflamed leg.


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Anon
Must of have been hard for him to find right fitting pants. XD
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Anon at 09:38PM, Jan 30th 2010.
JUST ANOTHER INTERESTING PERSON
6 Feet?Looks like a giant.Come on it has to be more.xp
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JUST ANOTHER INTERESTING PERSON at 03:59PM, Feb 8th 2010.
Anon
JUST ANOTHER INTERESTING PERSON wrote: #
6 Feet?Looks like a giant.Come on it has to be more.xp


The article refers to 6 feet at age 8.

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Anon at 07:39AM, Feb 9th 2010.
Bob
so EVERY part of his lower body was huge...below the torso...wow. including...uhh,wow.
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Bob at 12:40PM, Feb 14th 2010.
Dayne
wow r u seriouse i heard about him on dicovery channel
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Dayne at 11:22AM, Feb 16th 2010.
Baric
This guy had a lot of problems,but the biggest problem was to find the girl.Pity that the basketball was in development at that time, today would certainly played in the NBA, and easily found the girl.
Here you can find a lot of human facts:Human facts
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Baric at 06:33AM, Mar 2nd 2010.
cheeze burhah
the girls dont need to kneel down to give him a blowjob
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cheeze burhah at 11:29AM, Mar 13th 2010.
tesanj
Probably had a problem finding shoes, but he was great for making trails for skiing.
Tiger vs Crocodile-Video
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tesanj at 10:58AM, Mar 17th 2010.
Pearl<3
Wow !
I feel kinda bad.
why couldnt they fix the god damn hormone 0_0
for him .
I feeeel really bad;[
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Pearl at 02:44PM, Mar 20th 2010.
Interesting Facts
oh god what man... very sorry for him... why god made him with those hormone prob

everyone is to his hip only

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Interesting Facts at 05:49AM, Mar 25th 2010.
nobody
hes scary looking
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nobody at 08:47AM, Mar 25th 2010.
Raman Kaur
i wonder how big his **** is
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Raman Kaur at 07:12PM, Mar 25th 2010.
HARDMAN
sexy
juicy thick stick
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HARDMAN at 07:08PM, Mar 29th 2010.
David
Wow this is a very cool fact. Who knew someone could be this tall!

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David at 09:33PM, Apr 13th 2010.
Meme
One interesting fact is that the name of the town literally means "Tall guy" in spanish (alto = tall; alton = slang for altote or really tall guy). Look it up!
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Meme at 05:06PM, Apr 15th 2010.
Anonymous
Maybe it was the size of ur head
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Anonymous at 02:11AM, Apr 17th 2010.
harry potter
hello u r a very large person ok bye
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harry potter at 07:43AM, Apr 22nd 2010.
thas awsame
cool his you know must be as big as a head
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thas awsame at 08:52AM, Apr 23rd 2010.
Sean McCann
Its not 6 feet, he was 6 feet by age eight it said. His final height was over EIGHT FEET at age 21 when he died.
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Sean McCann at 01:49PM, Apr 27th 2010.
Me
JUST ANOTHER INTERESTING PERSON wrote: #
6 Feet?Looks like a giant.Come on it has to be more.xp


His total hight was EIGHT feet, eleven inches, if you would have read on. lol
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Me at 09:36AM, May 5th 2010.
Elizabeth
It says that he was six feet when he was eight years old not in that picutre..
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Elizabeth at 07:24PM, May 13th 2010.
nithun
Bob wrote: #
so EVERY part of his lower body was huge...below the torso...wow. including...uhh,wow.



lol imagine that.. he should hold two world records...
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nithun at 09:22AM, May 29th 2010.
vichu
thats huge
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vichu at 08:56AM, Jun 5th 2010.

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