World's 'tallest man', Leonid Stadnyk, dies aged 44

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-580880528026384323" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 616px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdnrQg6cr6tRy4MX9P2p22CWv212CU47jDae_mCmQCiIfsi8HkuHLT9Aw0ml083XePs7gmYEY6QW2YMl7FHe8vQLvLdnMW00GFTLte5xS2NxqNxCkGEsmmN1UsV7cNhkmTqNJB-jt8i11q/s1600/Ukrainian-Olena-Stadnyk.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" /><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlgXwdgrpH4ATCXGnucnr-BSlEwenUX_KZceIZ1u4d3ph8YTIlo-S542RNRiwiVPvXOUd8aORlW-cy2Q0jov6axj-t-aGbFR0cNOS6tvrarHUBfFxlpQTIjJzqyOhkwHtYGlLI8Hj31W0g/s1600/Ukrainian-Olena-Stadnyk..jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" /></span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Leonid Stadnyk, believed to be the world's tallest man at 8ft 4 inches has died. He was just 44. The peasant farmer from the Ukrainian village of Podoliantsy, died on Sunday August 24th from a brain haemorrhage after health problems.<br /><br />In his last interview, Leonid, who wears a  talked about how his height was a curse, why he refused to be measured by the Guinness Book of World Records and also why he refused to get married </span><blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"To me, my height is a curse, a punishment from God, not something to celebrate. What sin I have committed, I do not know. All my life I have dreamed of being just like everyone else. I don't want or need the fame that this would bring so I have no desire to be in this Guinness book.</span></blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I never got married because I don't want to inflict my problems on a wife. I think it would not be fair on her" he said.</span></blockquote> <div style="border: medium none; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At one point, his condition, called giganticism, left him growing at the rate of roughly a foot every 3 years. His feet measured 18 inches in length while his palms were more than a foot in diameter</span></div> </div> </div>

World's 'tallest man', Leonid Stadnyk, dies aged 44

Leonid Stadnyk, believed to be the world's tallest man at 8ft 4 inches has died. He was just 44. The peasant farmer from the Ukraini...

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World's Biggest Aircraft

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World's Biggest Aircraft

The first prize goes fairly to Ukrainian Antonov An-225 Mriya which is acknowledged to be the world’s largest plane up to date. The plan...

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