The tallest man in the world was born happy, healthy, and seemingly normal in size. On February 22, 1918, Addie Wadlow gave birth to an 8.7-pound baby named Robert Pershing Wadlow in Alton, Illinois.

Robert Wadlow was able to lift his 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) tall, 170 lb (77 kg) father up the stairs to their home when he was only nine years old. He was the first of five children born to Harold ...

Robert Wadlow's cause of death resulted from the same thing that made him famous—his height. He was the tallest man in the world, and according to the Guinness World Record book, no one has ...