Will Robert Wadlow Always Be the World’s Tallest Man?
Will anyone ever be taller than Robert Wadlow? The small-town boy from Illinois was a whopping 8’11” tall — that’s right: eight feet, eleven inches — when he died in …..
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The World’s Tallest Man: Weak Puns and Unreachable Women in This 1936 Video
Blast from the past: Robert Wadlow, age 17 and 8’4″ tall, poses for newsreels in 1936.
Objects on Set May Be Shorter Than They Appear
This photo from the set of The Invention of Hugo Cabret caught my eye. Could acclaimed director Martin Scorsese really be that much shorter than everyone else?