On Feb. 22, 1918, a perfectly normal 8.7-pound boy was born to Harold and Addie Wadlow of Alton, Illinois.
By his first birthday, Robert Wadlow weighed 45 pounds and stood 3 feet, 3.5 inches.
He kept growing, towering over his father at age eight. At 13 years old and 7 feet, 4 inches, he was the world’s tallest Boy Scout.
Wadlow was a quiet and mild-mannered young man, which led to him be called a “gentle giant.”

He enjoyed photography and playing guitar — until his hands grew too large to do either.
A hyperactive pituitary gland fueled his extraordinary growth.
Wadlow broke the record for world’s tallest man when he reached 8 feet, 4 inches in 1937.
After graduating high school, Robert went on tour with the Ringling Brothers Circus, and later crisscrossed the country to promote the International Shoe Company, which graciously provided Robert’s size 37AA footwear.

Wadlow suffered from weakness and lack of sensation in his legs and feet, and as he grew he required leg braces and a cane to walk.
In 1940, a faulty brace rubbing against his ankle caused a blister, which became badly infected. On July 15, 1940, Robert passed away at the age of 22. Eighteen days earlier, doctors had measured his height at 8 feet, 11.1 inches.
Robert's body was returned to his hometown and buried in a 1,000-pound casket which was carried by a dozen pallbearers and eight assistants.

A life-sized bronze statue honoring him still stands in Alton, Illinois. USA

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wow he's very tall

Where D Pics Na??

Picture or I don't believe it

BaEnki:
On Feb. 22, 1918, a perfectly normal 8.7-pound boy was born to Harold and Addie Wadlow of Alton, Illinois.
By his first birthday, Robert Wadlow weighed 45 pounds and stood 3 feet, 3.5 inches.
He kept growing, towering over his father at age eight. At 13 years old and 7 feet, 4 inches, he was the world’s tallest Boy Scout.
Wadlow was a quiet and mild-mannered young man, which led to him be called a “gentle giant.”

I don't understand you mean he fell from the sky
As in an alien �

Johnflowey1738:
I don't understand you mean he fell from the sky As in an alien �

Why would you understand when your brain is full of sawdust

ANTONINEUTRON:
Where D Pics Na??

Pics refused to upload sadly.

did they come to Africa to measure the Tutsi, Masai and the Fulani? They use their narrow mind to give themselves accolades

Nice read.

Orobo2Lekpa:
did they come to Africa to measure the Tutsi, Masai and the Fulani? They use their narrow mind to give themselves accolades

Oya give us their measurements that you and your people took of those you mentioned. Na Oyinbo go do everything for you?

i hope he is also tall down there...

Incredulous!

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Johnflowey1738:

I don't understand you mean he fell from the sky
As in an alien �

Still Wondering

The son is the father of the man

So this man looking like 40 plus is only 22 years at his death what an irony of life.

wow ... and he even has a statue in his honour ....

Kai. A real giant. Actually a abnormality - they keep growing until death

If it were in Africa now, they will say that he's using football age. Awkwardly backward set of people

The real Mr Long! The guy is long enough to pluck fruit from tress without stick or throwing of objects

What a towering height! I'll be like dwarf beside him @5f.9

8Ft tall? Mhen, he's pretty tall.
Like they say, too much of everything is bad and moderation is key, afterwards.
Btw, deformities ain't cool.

What if the dude is a 9icegerian and he won enter keke napep, how he for do am..

Biko what was the length of his joystick?

So I should stop frying my stew??

LeeMason:
Biko what was the length of his joystick?

Derailed one spotted. When people are talking right you'll be talking left