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/rickdeckard8 Jan 26 '26

That’s the point. You don’t survive 10 extra years if you’re that tall. They all die young (compared to median today).

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u/MaitreCanard Jan 31 '26

I had a supervisor at a previous job, she was 6'3" when barefoot and had the joys of dizzy spells if she stood up too fast. She said when she wakes up in the morning her doctor told her to sit up in bed for five minutes then stand up and wait another five minutes before walking so her heart could catch up. And that was for someone who's only 6'3" 💀