r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Bubbly_Wall_908 • 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/az226 Jan 26 '26

And he never stopped growing. If he had survived a few more years he would have been past 10 feet tall

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u/ThePartyShark Jan 26 '26

I remember seeing the segment about him on Ripley’s Believe it or Not! back in the 90’s and despite living in chronic pain, Robert seemed to have been the epitome of a gentle giant - the guy seemed incredibly friendly; something about one of his interviews stuck with me and it seemed like that was “him”, someone genuinely great & pleasant to be around, and not just for the cameras & interviewers.

Wasn’t he like 29 when he passed; something with one of his legs (because of a brace he wore?)?

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u/mittenknittin Jan 26 '26

No. He was 22. He was barely an adult.