The world's tallest
and shortest man in the Guinness Book of World Records, met each other for the
first time on Thursday November 13 at an event in London.
Meanwhile the tallest man, 31 year-old Sultan Kosen from Turkey, a part-time farmer, is 8 feet 3 inches tall and can reach a basketball hoop without jumping. He became the world's tallest living man in 2009. He also holds the record for largest hands on a living person. His hands measure 11.2 inches from the wrist to the tip of his middle finger.
The shortest man, 74
year-old Chandra Bahadur Dangi, from Nepal, is just 21½ inches tall and is the
shortest adult human ever verified by Guinness World Records. He works as a
weaver who also helps look after buffaloes & cows in his remote mountain
village of Reemkholi. He weighs just 32 pounds.
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