The world's tallest man met the world's shortest woman on January 27 in Egypt for an event organized by the Egyptian Culture Ministry.
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Sultan Kösen, 31, from Turkey stands 8'3" tall. Jyoti Amge, 24, from India is 2'1".
Kösen is approximately four times Amge's height.
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Amge is a TV personality in Nagpur, India. She is considered to be the manifestation of a goddess in her hometown.
She was also cast in the fourth season of American Horror Story: Freak Show.
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Due to his extreme size, Kösen was never able to finish school and instead began working as a farmer to support his family.
As a teenager, he was signed to the Galatasaray basketball team, but unfortunately he was too tall to play.
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The small and large duo joined people across the globe as they attempted to break many different weird and wacky world records
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