The tallest man ever to live
Here we have Robert Wadlow, the tallest man to ever walk the earth. At age one, he was already over 3ft (1m) tall. He kept growing, until his death in 1940, aged 22. At that time, the gigantic man was 8’11” (2.72m) tall. This record has still not been broken by anyone, making Robert Wadlow the tallest man ever to live.
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