Sultan Kosen, 34, is a staggering 8 feet 1 inch, and Jyoti Amge, 24, is 2 feet and 0.7 inches.
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Kosen and Amge were invited to Cairo by Egypt's Tourism Promotion Board in an attempt to boost travel to Egypt's capital city.
Kosen, a farmer from Turkey, was named the tallest living man in the world by Guinness World Records in February 2011. He also holds the record for the world's largest hands, (11.22 inches from his wrist to the tip of his middle finger).
Kosen's massive height is caused by pituitary gigantism, a condition where the body produces too much growth hormone.
Due to spinal abnormalities, Kosen walks using crutches. He successfully underwent surgery to remove a tumor on his pituitary gland in 2010 to stop his increased growth.
Amge, an actress from India, has a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia. She was officially named the shortest woman in the world on Dec. 16, 2011 — her 18th birthday.
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Amge landed her first major role in 2014, playing circus member Ma Petite in the fourth season of American Horror Story: Freak Show. She has also appeared on Indian reality television shows.
The two record holders had never met before the trip and described being in Egypt as a "dream come true."
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Just two new friends, hanging out and taking selfies by the pyramids.
This is a list of the tallest people, verified by Guinness World Records or other reliable sources. According to the Guinness World Records, the tallest human in recorded history was Robert Wadlow of the United States (1918–1940), who was 272 cm (8 ft 11 in).
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man has reunited with the world's shortest woman six years after their viral photoshoot in front of the Egyptian pyramids. Sultan Kosen, who stands at 8ft 3in, and Jyoti Amge, who is just 2ft tall, were a striking pair as they posed for pictures in Irvine, California, yesterday.
The world's tallest man, Sultan Kosen, and the world's shortest woman, Jyoti Amge, recently reunited in the United States after six years. They first met for a photo shoot in Egypt back in 2018. The two of them enjoyed breakfast together in California's Irvine and took some photos on February 19.
The world's shortest verified man is Chandra Bahadur Dangi, while for women Pauline Musters holds the record. At 54.6 cm (21.5 in), Nepalese-born Chandra Bahadur Dangi was, at the time of his death in 2015, the world's shortest person ever verified.
Zeng Jinlian is the tallest woman ever to be recorded in medical history, reaching up to 8 ft, 1.75 in (248.3 cm) in height. She was born in 1964 and lived until 1982.
The tallest man in history was Robert Wadlow, who stood at 8 feet 11.1 inches tall. He was born on Feb. 22, 1918. Wadlow's height came as a result of pituitary gigantism. By the time he was 5, Wadlow was 5 feet 4 inches tall, Guinness World Records reports.
Goliath (/ɡəˈlaɪəθ/ gə-LY-əth) is a Philistine warrior in the Book of Samuel. Descriptions of Goliath's immense stature vary among biblical sources, with the Masoretic Text describing him as 9 feet 9 inches (2.97 m) tall.
Well, first of all, 8 foot tall humans are exceedingly rare. Only 29 men and 3 women in all of recorded history have been 8 feet or taller, and basketball has only existed for about 120 years or so. But people of such extreme height are generally not athletes.
Robert Wadlow, who measured an incredible 8 feet, 11 inches tall - and was said to be still growing when he died - suffered a leg injury from a brace he wore during an appearance at the Manistee National Forest Festival, and it led to an infection that would kill him at the age of only 22.
Sandra Elaine Allen (June 18, 1955 – August 13, 2008) was an American woman recognized by the Guinness World Records as the tallest woman in the world. She was 7 feet 7 inches (231 cm) tall.
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