The Tallest Man On Earth.

A friend put me onto a Swedish singer who goes by The Tallest Man On Earth. One man and a guitar for the most part, but it's extremely uplifting. Here's a clip from some sort of Swedish TV show...



He's playing in June in NYC, so go buy a ticket.

While searching for some videos I thought about searching for the actual tallest man on earth, and while I found some extremely tall living men, the crown for the tallest man ever goes to Robert Pershing Wadlow, of Alton, Illinois. Measuring in at 8 feet 11.1 inches (do not forget that .1 inch), Wadlow also weighed in at a whopping 490 pounds at the time of his death. As it unfortunately goes with abnormally large things, they tend to meet an untimely demise, and Wadlow is no different - he died at the age of 22 in his sleep. Here is an amazing image of his with his father, Harold Franklin Wadlow: