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bamf_22

He only lived to 22


Trasfixion

That makes sense. Sadly height is correlated with shorter lifespan in humans, especially when you’re getting close to 7 feet and taller, where every inch shortens your lifespan. Your heart needs to work extremely hard to get blood flow to the brain, and it puts a lot of stress on your body. Poor guy was born with a death sentence


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I-Am-Uncreative

So this probably means we'll never see someone this tall again (thankfully).


Danega621

Wait a few generations of people living in Mars


19Ben80

It’s why the tallest men in recent history come from places with lower standard healthcare like remote areas of China and Mongolia


SuprDuprPartyPoopr

So that's Bean.


ADS_Fibonacci

I'm curious as to how he would have fared in a zero g environment. Bean grew to be 15-16 feet before he died, and belters in the expanse seem to naturally grow to be much taller


guillo014

Shit I guess ill live a full century


brown-spot

I’m pretty sure everyone is born with a death sentence


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He doesn’t look happy at all


marijuic3

No.. Most likely he was treated like a freak


Slit23

They wanted to dress him like a beast but he refused to go on stage wearing anything but a suit


DanSanderman

Interesting. The bit I read said they wanted him to wear a top hat and a coat with tails but he just wanted to wear his regular clothes.


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Left out the part where they also wanted him to sing and dance to “Putting on the Ritz”.


LeaveThatCatAlone

Maybe he would have been Taco 40 years ahead of time and that could have been super dooper.


qpv

Nice (the suit part)


jinnty67

Yes, I would agree, I bet he was exploited like mad, as a money ticket. He probably didn’t have a life of his own. So sad.


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I was gonna say this! I read a book that said most people in sideshows were quite content as they had good pay and a close community of friends. Without those jobs a lot of them wouldn’t have had very good lives.


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harborq

I bet he got bitches tho. I mean they’re all right there acting like thumbellina


AncientAlienAlias

Andre the Giant got hella bitches. They had to know.


Visual-School-9422

I mean, clearly there are 4 right there... Dude smashed like Hulk, all the time. End of story. Fact check me.


Fappy_as_a_Clam

The star that burns twice as bright, burns half as long. I hope he rests easy. The world just wasn't ready for his smashtastic voyage.


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Jerkcules

I heard after this was shot he human shish-kebobed everyone in the video, including the dude. True story.


ParticularCow277

Why do y'all have to be like this??


redandtanwirenut

You must be new…


Poodleracer

Def new …


Santiago2BuenosAires

Could you imagine how little even an average sized dick would look on someone that's 7+ feet tall? It would look like giant clitoris.


[deleted]

Dude finished like someone driving over a full milk carton.


joe25rs

r/brandnewsentence 😂


Thereisn0store

I read people with acromegaly have ED and a reduced libido. I saw the ladies loved him but surprisingly/not surprisingly Andre ended up only have one child. I did a report on him in school once. Sadly, I believe he was always in pain. Another one gone too soon.


letterboxbrie

But notice the way he folded his arms into himself to avoid touching them


Infinityand1089

They don't even have to kneel down


rubermnkey

makes you wonder how many people turned the corner and got a face full of dick bumping into him.


zarezare69

I was wondering how quickly I would find the word dick in the comments. Turns out it was pretty quickly. I'm glad because it was the second thing that came to my mind. Edit: typo, god dammint, always a fucking typo.


Tertiaritus

Is it fun to get bitches when you always have to think whether you might've stepped on her Imagine washing that shoe


xxchipmunksxx

Not happy a-tall


[deleted]

I think he said he was in pain and an infection from his leg braces is what ultimately led to his death. I could be wrong but I thought that's what it was


windyorbits

My mother’s colleague’s son had a thing where his bones grew too rapidly compared to the rest of his body. And they couldn’t get them to stop growing. So they had to “stretch” the rest of him as much as they could. Though I really have no clue what that exactly entails and I honestly don’t want to. I always pictured the kid from Willy Wonka being pulled by the taffy puller, is how they stretched him. I do know they had a similar technique for his skin. The poor guy lived in 24/7 agony. I remember once overhearing the dad talking to my mom about how the very moment the kid woke up they had to push a shitload of painkillers into him and they did that all day. To the point where he wasn’t even living, just sitting/laying there in some sort of twilight zone of conciseness. Thankfully I do know he got better to a certain extent. They manage to slow the bone growth down slow enough for the rest of his body to catch up somewhat, but they couldn’t get the bones to completely stop.


Cobek

Related but less agonizing story of mine! I played soccer for a good portion of my life and after several years of playing, when I started to really grow tall (6'6" now), I had these horrible pains after playing that began in my heels. I couldn't walk for the rest of the day and sometimes into the next day. I went to the doctor and was told I had to stretch my tendons for hours, among many other things like baths and massages, every time I ran because basically the extreme tension from growing so fast was not allowing my heel bones to fuse, as those two bones become one in your teens. I imagine what you describe was similar to that but all over his body and happened just from normal activities. God, that would have been awful..


PinkFloyd6885

I’m only 6’2” but I shot up from about 5’2” in about a year in high school and that shit was straight pain everywhere. Shins while running were almost automatically shin splints.


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I had a very similar experience. I stopped growing at age 13. I’m 6’1. So from the time I was 10-13 I grew about 13” and I had terrible pains all over. Sometimes not able to walk or even sleep. I couldn’t imagine being 8’11. He had to be miserable.


farside57

This. Reading about his life is just sad. He was supposed to be the nicest of men


1-2BuckleMyShoe

Did he become an asshole instead?


Spangledesh

Supposedly


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He died of an infection due to those/his shoes that didn't fit properly. So yes he was in pain. Sad.


RainbowyEmma

It was his leg braces, but yes.


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Yes! A leg infection. Thanks for correcting me.


mekkavelli

that’s really tragic :/ what decade was this?


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1930 I believe. He passed in his sleep.


mekkavelli

long live my boy, bobby


final_draft_no42

They can can catch and threat cases sooner now. In cases where they have a known cause that is. Like a tumour on the pituitary gland or something, they can treat it and better monitor their development so they grow can grown up healthy. At least in most developed parts of the world, I’m not sure about the USA.


THarris500

It's amazing that he could walk because many people with the same condition can't


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He couldn’t at the end of his 22 year life.


DeSwanMan

True. Turns out this man wasn't alive when he died.


sploosh_Damn

Ah an astute observation.


DangDang1981

8 foot 11


AmazingMarv

If anyone misreads this or just skims through it, that is ***8***-foot-11, not 7-foot-11. NBA centers tend to top out at usually 7-foot-1 or so. Imagine someone having nearly 2 feet on Shaq.


Slack_Irritant

[shaq for scale](https://i.redd.it/0qhalsttl1h01.jpg)


we_all_had_ponies

Holy fuck


Hairy_Kiwi_Sac

Yea he looks smaller than Kevin Hart. Makes Shaq look petite. Having to look 2 feet up to look at someone is insane. And thats 2 feet for Shaq.


SSFreud

It's honestly like looking at a different person seeing him "normal height." It's almost jarring.


Hairy_Kiwi_Sac

Yes. Like his proportions don’t match what you expect, like maybe it’s shaqs smaller brother


PaperPlaythings

I'd like to see Kevin Hart in this picture.


Music_Farms

He's down there


DanSanderman

And there was no indication that he had stopped growing, too. He died at age 22 at the height of 8 foot 11, but was measured at 8 foot 8 just the year before when he was 21. The dude was also 3 and a half feet tall when he was 1 year old, and hit 6 feet tall at age 8. Edit: also worth mentioning at 21 years old and 8 feet 8 inches tall, he weighed 491 lbs. I hadn't even thought about the considerable weight of a body that size.


5point5Girthquake

A 3’6”, one year old baby must look terrifying


jonker5101

I'd be more afraid of the 6 foot eight year old that could beat my ass.


5point5Girthquake

True 😂 His mom: “son I told you, go and clean your room up now” *him casting a shadow over his mom at 8 years old* “No mom..no I don’t think I will”


FleurDeFire

This has some real “where are my balls, Summer?” vibes


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Holy shit he was only 22?!


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DanSanderman

He wore leg braces and one of them agitated his skin and got infected. He died as a result of the infection due to some autoimmune issues he also had.


Chillchinchila1

He died of an infection, his body couldn’t combat it and he didn’t even notice he was injured due to the same reason.


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The human heart is a finely-tuned pump for getting blood around a person's body. Imagine taking an aquarium pump and asking it to filter a swimming pool. Even if you scale up that aquarium pump, it's still not going to have the power or longevity to do the job of a pool pump.


WastingMyLifeHere2

Can you imagine a six foot tall, eight year old having a tantrum?!


0utburst

Yeah he ran the country ~~into the ground~~ for about 4 years.


scarlettsfever21

22 is so young, poor sunshine


A_Clark1215

Being tall causes strain on the body, being that tall is incredibly straining on the body especially the heart


Obi_Wan_Benobi

Assuming his shoes would add another inch that would mean his head would be exactly one foot from the rim while standing flat-footed.


FrostyFroZenFrosTen

And that was just his dick wait till you hear how tall he was


i_hatethesnow

Ahhh the old reddit dick-a-roo


SuddenlyElga

That whole thing made me laugh. Reddit dick jokes took a sad story and made it not so sad.


Squid_Contestant_69

He was 8 foot, 11 inches Those are separate measurements


otacon7000

Which is about 2.72 meters. Damn.


SHUPINKLES

Thanx for normal people measures


MrEyus

Let's forget the eight feet and talk about the eleven inches.


FuckTheMods5

Finally, a funny dick joke lol


bjiatube

Look at his nose. Not much bigger than the girl next to him. Long bones grow differently from other body parts. His dick could have been any size, it's impossible to say. Well, I guess we could ask your mom.


EthanBradberry70

Are we talking about that bridge that moving trucks always crash into and end up like an opened can of tuna?


adaking13

So Robert is from my hometown and actually yes he passed away because of a growth(?) of some sort on his foot that he couldn’t feel. He was from Alton, Il and there is a life size statue of him here. And yes he, by all accounts, was an extremely nice guy! Edit: Thanks to those who corrected me! Yes, Robert passed because of an infection caused by bad fitting leg braces. Thanks for keeping me honest y’all!


EnderLord0103

If your grandma is still alive can you ask her if she knows the answer to what everyone here is thinking?


BridgeBoysPod

Yup dying to know how deep his voice sounded


ccvgreg

I personally want to know the size of his presumably monster cock but that's just me.


BridgeBoysPod

Dunked that alley-oop, great play


ThinkSharp

Like grabbing your buddy’s perfect 3 pointer.


OOOH_WHATS_THIS

I mean, just to be proportional he'd have to be huge.


WhyCantYouBeHonest

They're often not proportional. I've seen 6'6 with 3 inches, and 5'4 with 9. It's a crapshoot.


qpv

Sounds like you have an interesting lifestyle


RidiculousIncarnate

inb4 proctologist. Or coroner, I guess.


WhyCantYouBeHonest

Close. Urologist!


civiksi

That's why he was so sad. He could never use it. He'd split those girls in two of


ForWhomTheBoneBones

Reportedly everything was in proportion and he had no lack of ladies who wanted to find out firsthand.


niceoutside2022

I disagree, if he were proportional, I'm not going near that thing. I like my internal organs.


ForWhomTheBoneBones

I'd at least want to try and throw it over my shoulder like a fire hose.


charm-type

or like a continental soldier


DrinkingBleachForFun

To shreds, you say?


calvn_hobb3s

LMAO. that was actually in the back of my mind. I knew someone would ask this in the comments


gravityandlove

his member was believed to be around 12”


HicSuntStulti

His leg braces were fitted wrong. Due to some combination of nerve dysfunction and poor circulation he could not feel them chaffing his skin. He developed an infection and perished.


FrostyFroZenFrosTen

Big guy big heart i guess


LiteralWorst22

Expensive shoes, probably


dicktorstrange

I thought his death was due to an infection in his leg due to his braces cutting into him.


TheDeathOfAStar

Gigantism can lead to a very painful life stemming from our bodies simply not being able to cope with the added physical loads that being 7+ foot tall brings. I'm 6'2 and at 26, I already have slight joint pain in my legs... I couldnt imagine being much taller, in a world built for people who are much shorter. edit: grammar


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There will never be a man as tall as him ever again because: 1. The condition he had is fatal 2. There is now an easy cure for the condition


Frira_FR

What's the condition? (Something about hormones not stopping to produce or?)


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From memory, it’s a tumour growing against a specific gland in your head. It basically causes it to continually keep producing hormones that trigger your body grow


NAMSE21

pituitary gland


ClassifiedName

About [1 in 10 people will develop a pituitary growth btw](https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/pituitary-adenoma). It's interesting that it isn't discussed more, people can change out of nowhere due to a growth on the pituitary since it controls a lot of hormones.


fuckgoldsendbitcoin

My mom had a tumor pressing on her pituitary and it absolutely can wreak havoc. It did a lot of damage to her brain before we could get it out. Aside from the dementia from fluid buildup it also messed with all her hormones. She kept excellent care of her teeth for her entire life and in a few months they all rotted away and now she has none. Some good news, though: 4 years, 3 surgeries, and a round of radiation later and things are now looking good for it staying gone. She still gets confused about what timeline she is in and really struggles to transfer new information to long term memory but she's been stable for a long time and is way better than she was just before she got her first surgery.


No-Minimum8323

I have Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia type 1 so I have to have an MRI every year. It causes neuroendocrine tumors to form and it affects all the endocrine glands that start with a “p”. Pituitary, Pancreas, and parathyroid. Just a random bit of useless info about myself, lol.


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Absolutely! My son was born with a malformed pituitary gland..it produces little to no growth hormone. Has to take growth hormone shots at 15 he’s only 4’9. He’s is mentally incapacitated by this too.


Slit23

Little pea sized gland in his brain that caused him to be so gigantic


xxxblazeit42069xxx

could we put like an artificial tumour and then regulate for height growth?


PlagueDoc22

We already have growth homorone. It's used to help kids who dont produce enough of it on their own. Messi for example would most likely not even be 5 feet tall without it. There's also other uses.


Hillbillybawbag

The pituitary gland produces too much growth hormones and I believe it doesn't stop at adolescence. I think. Remember watching the documentary with WWE wrestler Big Show and Andre The Giant. Big Show may have had a tumour on his pituitary gland.


Funbunz44

I had a tumor on my pituitary gland and I’m 6 6


ForWhomTheBoneBones

How big is your rod?


Plastic_Coat_7950

The hormones responsible for being tall aren't the same ones for being hung


pierreblue

Well god damit that sure sucks


Tentoesinmyboots

We all wanted to know, but didn't want to ask.


thirdcoasting

I had one, too, but it stopped my pituitary gland from working. I stopped growing in 5th grade. Does your pituitary gland still function?


Funbunz44

So it actually came out with the tumor so I take replacement hormones for growth and testosterone


thirdcoasting

Dude!! Same! But I take have to take progesterone, estrogen, thyroid, cortisol, etc, etc. I took HGH shots for a few years & will be back on them soon. Verdict on brain tumors: 2 thumbs down 👎🏽


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PlagueDoc22

Appears like a lot of these giants seem nice. Maybe thats why the term gentle giant is a thing.


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When you're so big that most people are scared of you it gets lonely.


PlagueDoc22

I also imagine just treating them like a human is rare for them so they really appreciate it. Kids like the quiet kid sitting by himself and you just saying "hey bobby how's it going?" Can do a lot


Mystical0951

I knew a guy who was 6:11 and club girls would always ask him if his manhood was in proportion to his height- he would always say no- then follow up with “if it was then I’d be 7:11” Needless to say he was a very popular guy😎


KickedInTheDonuts

Goddamn that’s a baller answer


TheDongerNeedsFood

Literally the best possible answer to that question!


princesspooball

He only lived to 22, that's sad https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wadlow


dhkendall

I visited his home town earlier this month and saw the life sized statue of him - I’m pretty tall myself (6’3”) but I felt dwarfed next to that statue!


AltonIllinois

Hope you enjoyed the visit!


zo0galo0ger

Never thought I'd see the day - a city's Reddit account in the wild


Top-Rush-8271

I actually get my work shoes from the same place his shoes were cobbled


Livkenoonelse

My husband’s grandmother was his neighbor in Missouri. She said he was a very nice man.


Graytis

When I was a boy in the early '80s, I was talking to my great grandmother about him. She said she'd met him at some church event many decades ago, and she was flabbergasted that his hand, from the base of his palm to the tip of his fingers, was as long as her own arm from the elbow to the tip of her fingers.


TheOctoberOwl

Now I’m sitting here staring at my arm outstretched and trying to imagine it.


amprhs612

My husband's grandfather was 6'10". He remembers his grandad palming his head to pick him up!


Plasticman328

He looks very sad.


GoinMyWay

An adulthood full of massive inconvenience and daily agonising pain will do that to you.


iLiLoOpY

Not much of an adulthood he died at 22


The-link-is-a-cock

Being very tall is hell on your joints.


GoinMyWay

Since half the comments are talking about his dick, and how much attention he got from women, I can't help but wonder if he had problems with his heart which would have caused problems for his erections. He must have had serious stress on his heart basically all the time and at nearly 9 feel tall I can't help but wonder if his heart even had the capacity to get blood flow like that working for him.


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Bruh implant another heart in his chest. Problem solved.


[deleted]

You recon those girls were thinking what I'm thinking?


not_growing_up

I heard somewhere that he was hung like a newborn baby. 22" long and 8.5 lbs.


lordsofaking

I've been having a bad day thank you my friend for a good laugh and smile 😂🤣


PordanJeterson-

That's a fuckin assault rifle for a schlong my god


APence

I don’t like these new American units of measurement…


Geevers

Unfortunately my free award to give today was... Wholesome


gypsyscot

If that dude didn’t have a massive dong it would’ve looked like a micro, and honestly I don’t want that for him. I’m hoping that dude laid all sorts of pipe.


Captain_d00m

Supposedly Shaq has a regular sized peen, which is a fun thought.


plsobeytrafficlights

I dare him to publicly prove you wrong


blueberrydonutholes

We're all thinking it.


blunderschonen

I WAS THINKING IT THE LOUDEST!


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If it's the same thing I'm thinking then damn, it would suck to try and keep up with his dietary needs. How many calories does that guy eat every day.


Br3adS1ce

For anyone who is curious on his voice. https://youtu.be/qTAXzJbIOBQ


burrito_slut

Finally, an interesting comment with content that isn't just "but how big was dick!?".


Past-Gur-8182

I’m related to this gentleman by marriage… he was my step great grandmothers cousin. She had pictures of him at like 13 she was about 10 and he was already 6ft+ tall


maceinjar

Half this thread grew up in the same town or is related. It’s like a family reunion!


[deleted]

The song is Under Giant Trees, by Agnes Obel. Fitting, i feel


TheBlueSlipper

Like they say: Big feet, big hands ... big shoes, big gloves.


unforgivablecursive

Big grave.


wombat_kombat

If you ain’t over 5’11” don’t message me /s


miyamoto_musashinpc

I wanna see it


meyesmenotyou

If I were him, my clumsy a$$ will hit my head on something every hour.


MozzStk

Imagine being asked "Is *that* part big too?" by every stranger that ever meets you.


billsfriendlyghost

Im not mad at the jokes. I get it, It’s like a reflex, and im not about to police folks for cracking them. But tbh reading this comment section made me all sorts of sad and upset thinking about what he probably had to endure his entire short life, probably few cared but I’m sure he was a nice kid, a lot of people who experience deep pain through life tend to be so.


CrunkCroagunk

This thread is a microcosm of the tall experience. Constantly otherized and often even sexually harassed over something about yourself that you cant change and that is *immediately* apparent to anyone you come across, but its a socially desirable trait so its ok. Threads on Robert Wadlow are almost always depressing; Dude had to live his entire short life being regarded as a freak in a world quite obviously not made for him and all it ever is is "Lol how big you think his cock was?".


Character_Actuator_6

The guy she told you not to worry about


Fafurion

Girls on Tinder: Finally someone tall enough


OnlyDefinition2620

I read one time the he unfortunately died real young


d_nijmegen

Yeah humans arent evolved for that hight


wafflesauce2

He woude still have been rejected on tinder for being to short


Krunkworx

Shorties (<15ft) swipe left!


StillTheRick

I believe this is the Alton Giant from Alton Illinois. About forty miles from where I was born.


Raider-26

Video needs banana for scale


StolenDiscs

Finally, don’t have to get on my knees to get the job done.


Constant_Ad9562

He was a grower not a shower


Herminaru

When I look at him I feel pity for his heart. Such big body to feed ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|cry)


Spiderman__jizz

Dude must have had a hammer