Robert Wadlow of Illinois is being measured for a jacket in 1939. At 8 ft. 11 inches (2.7 meters) Wadlow was the tallest man in the world. Unfortunately, he died the next year at age 22. (from Getty Images’ book “Decades of the 20th Century—1930s” by Nick Yapp, scanned by WeirdVintage)
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