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.
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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