{"id":5645,"date":"2011-06-09T09:40:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T16:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=5645"},"modified":"2011-11-08T23:20:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T07:20:11","slug":"tallest-man-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/tallest-man-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallest Man in History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Tallest-man-ever.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5646\" title=\"Tallest-man-ever\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Tallest-man-ever.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Tallest-man-ever.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Tallest-man-ever-340x264.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/robertwadlow-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5647\" title=\"robertwadlow (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/robertwadlow-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"787\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/robertwadlow-2.jpg 502w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/robertwadlow-2-340x533.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p>The tallest man in history was Robert Pershing Wadlow, who was 8 feet 11.1 inches (2.72 m) tall and 485 pounds at the time of his death.\u00a0 By the age of 4 years old, he was already 5 ft 4 inches tall (1.63m).\u00a0 At the age of 13, he became the tallest boy scout in history at 7 ft 4 inches (2.24m). Wadlow had not yet stopped growing at the time of his death at the age of 22.\u00a0 He died in 1940 of an infection caused from blisters on his ankle that he didn&#8217;t notice at first due to not being able to feel much of anything in his feet and lower legs.<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Robert Pershing Wadlow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.altonweb.com\/history\/wadlow\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Pershing Wadlow<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Robert Wadlow Images\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thetallestman.com\/robertpershingwadlowimages.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Wadlow Images<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Robert Wadlow\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Wadlow\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Wadlow<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## The tallest man in history was Robert Pershing Wadlow, who was 8 feet 11.1 inches (2.72 m) tall and 485 pounds at the time of his death.\u00a0 By the age of 4 years old, he was already 5 ft 4 inches tall (1.63m).\u00a0 At the age of 13, he became the tallest boy scout in history at 7 ft [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1385],"class_list":["post-5645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-tallest-man-record"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5645"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5650,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5645\/revisions\/5650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}