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Real Giants: The World's Tallest People

'Human Bigfoot' seems very nasty as a term. And I'm no PC zealot.
 
 
Swifty said:
You can buy one of Robert Wadlow's shoes .. I doubt anyone with a brain would pay 20 million U.S. for it though .. I could see it selling for between 80 to 200 thousand dollars tops though on a good day ..

https://www.ebay.com/itm/134208149830?hash=item1f3f6dd946:g:J58AAOSwh1JjBM55&amdata=enc:AQAHAAAA4OYZkXyRimEVAUoUQVAg5Q0mq1U7jEX2+Q4yE/VtaMUBWT/C0dYxf3cCMgmoPYB8pifIkCrxXY5Ryupyo+T9jQne4FYndpRCMaaPh0yheGbt+0ROeoFcrpnIrOkjYGd/6iDH1OQ38PjTMlX6yUSaI65MsoQd9LHiat9ArMS1t0lXAPHvBjRgbmGL9doWHM7sWH93Gv7y2ALcpR+CAEOwKUL2+0mGRSo2XsC6kWpgvlP3o5Chw4jjC88mGjyZPm8/IxbvZwRbYEURKYJ2G4BEQ/vlmt9S/cPbVO6iXEtfbIZz|tkp:Bk9SR87N0JP-YA
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The buy it now price is one cent under $20 000 so I'll buy it at that and then accept your offer of $200 000. A pleasure to do business with you Swifty.
 
gordonrutter said:
The buy it now price is one cent under $20 000 so I'll buy it at that and then accept your offer of $200 000. A pleasure to do business with you Swifty.
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If you'll provide an insole? .. deal.
 
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Swifty said:
You can buy one of Robert Wadlow's shoes ...
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There are two categories of "Robert Wadlow shoe(s)" - custom shoes that Wadlow actually wore, and copies of his custom shoes that were offered as promotional displays to shoe stores who carried products of the International Shoe Company. This company contracted to provide Wadlow shoes at no cost once he'd reached his adult size in the late 1930s. Because Wadlow was famous, the company could leverage their connection with him as advertising.

Wadlow's public appearances in his final years were on behalf of International Shoe Company. According to Roadside America single copies of a Wadlow shoe (never actually worn by Wadlow) were distributed as promotional displays.
Although Robert Wadlow died in 1940, he remains the Tallest Man ever measured, nearly nine feet high. For someone so big, surprisingly few of his personal items have survived, because most of them were destroyed by his Mom after he died.

And yet a surprising number of Robert Wadlow shoes can still be seen across America. But that's because Robert Wadlow never wore them. One of his jobs was as a roving ambassador for the Peters Shoe Company. He would arrive in a town, give the local shoe store a promotional size 37 shoe, then move on. Because he continued to grow throughout his life, Robert's final shoe size was actually 44.5.
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SOURCE: https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/18785

Here's more from his hometown's museum:
At age 18, he had reached eight feet, four inches tall, and weighed 390 pounds. His clothing required three times the normal amount of cloth, and his size 37 shoes cost $100.00 a pair (a lot of money back in the 1930's). Two years later his shoes were provided free by the International Shoe Company.

When he turned 20 Robert traveled for the shoe company, visiting over 800 towns and 41 states. His father had to modify the family car, removing the front passenger seat so Robert could sit in the back seat and stretch out his long legs. The father and son team traveled over 300,000 miles on their goodwill tour for the shoe company.
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SOURCE: https://www.altonmuseum.com/html/robert_wadlow.html
 
World’s tallest man meets shortest living woman

Sultan Kosen, 41, and Jyoti Amge, 30, were photographed together in California on Monday and their height difference is staggering.

Kosen, of Turkey, is the tallest man in the world at 8 feet 3 inches tall. He's one of only 10 confirmed cases in history of someone growing 8 feet or taller.

Amge, of India, is the shortest living woman in the world at just above 2 feet tall, which is smaller than the average 2-year-old.

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Kosen holds his shoe next to Amge, showing that it's nearly as tall as her

Both Kosen and Amge earned their titles in 2011 from the Guinness World Records.

Amge's small stature is the result of achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism that caused her growth to stop at her present height.

Kosen's size is because of a tumor that caused him to develop a medical condition called pituitary gigantism.

https://www.the-sun.com/news/10439859/sultan-kosen-jyoti-amge-worlds-tallest-shortest-guiness-book/

maximus otter
 
The tallest monarch in recorded history was Sancho VII who ruled Navarre from 1194 until his death in 1234.
His remains were exhumed for study and examined by the physician Luis del Campo, who measured them at 2.20 metres / 7ft 3".
So, antemortem, this true giant wouldn't have looked out of place on an NBA court!

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sancho_VII_of_Navarre
 
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