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World's Tallest:

Leonid Stadnyk, believed to be the world’s tallest man at 8ft 4 inches died August 24, 2014 aged 44.

Leonid, a peasant farmer from the Ukrainian village died of complications arising from brain hemorrhage.

In his last interview, he talked about how his height was a curse and why he refused to be measured by the Guinness Book of World Records and also why he refused to get married.

    “To me, my height is a curse, a punishment from God, not something to celebrate. What sin have I committed?

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.

    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".

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. 

Nigeria's Oldest Cleric:

Nigeria’s oldest pastor, Pa Samuel Sadela has passed-on, aged 114!

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