The world’s tallest man, whose search for a bride covered the world, ended up marrying a woman from his home town nearly half his age and more than two feet shorter, Chinese media reported on Wednesday.

Bao Xishun, 56, a 2.36-metre (7-ft, 9-inch) herdsman listed by Guinness World Records as the tallest living man, married a 29-year-old saleswoman, the Beijing News said. Both come from Chifeng in Inner Mongolia.

While on the subject of tall people…

At 8′ 11″ Robert Pershing Wadlow was the tallest human recorded in modern times (1918 – 1940)
Manute Bol the Sudanese born basketball player is 7′ 7″
Yao Ming of the Houston Rockets is 7′ 6″ beating out Shawn Bradley by an inch and Rik Smits and Ralph Sampson by 2 inches
Richard Kiel was 7′ 2″
André the Giant was 7 feet

Finally, really tall love must be in the air since the tallest couple in England just got married.[[ht: not much fits]

h/t: Onion

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