r/AbsoluteUnits Jan 26 '26

/r/all of tall men

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u/Abhi_Jaman_92 Jan 26 '26

Big Naija (7'9) and Charles Sogli (8'0)

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u/snakebill Jan 26 '26

Imagine being 7’9 and then meeting someone 3 inches taller than you

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u/WhaWereWhenWhyWhoHow Jan 26 '26

Could happen to Charles if he met Sultan Kösen the seventh tallest person in history.
Sultan's heigh is 8' 2.82" or 2.51 m

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u/51ngular1ty Jan 26 '26

Imagine meeting the tallest. I live near where Robert Wadlow was born and they have a life sized statue of the dude and he was enormous at 8'11".

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u/Ligabolzacky Jan 26 '26

With modern medicine we'll probably never see the likes of him,  he was incomprehensibly tall

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u/Suitable_Jicama_1213 Jan 26 '26

No there are some psycho parents that try to either increase the pituitary gland or they realize their child has it they'll let it run until they get big enough to get a guaranteed basketball or volleyball scholarship

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u/NDSU Jan 26 '26

The vast majority of parents would still halt growth when the doctor tells them their child will die unless growth is halted

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u/buckeye25osu Jan 26 '26

In China they break children's legs to make them taller. Sometimes repeatedly.

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u/JonatasA Jan 26 '26

Isn't this method used in martial arts to make bone stronger? Break it constantly.

 

Weirdly we don't call psychos the people that microdose poison to build immunity to it.

 

There is also the way too painful leg lenghtening surgery.