I linked the other day to a video about a gent named Igor Vovkovinskiy and said he was the tallest man in the world. That was the title of the video posted by the folks who do the version of 60 Minutes in Australia but many of you have informed me that that's wrong. Mr. Vovkovinskiy, at 7'8" is the tallest man in America but not the world.
The Guinness Book of World Records people say that honor belongs to a Turkish-Kurdish farmer named Sultan Kösen, who is 8'3". Both men are still growing and both apparently have the same condition: A tumor that is pressing against the pituitary gland, causing it to secrete an abnormal amount of growth hormone.
Apparently, there are also a few other men who are an inch or two taller than Igor. I am correcting the record because I don't like having people get pissed at me, especially if they're over seven feet tall.