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Sultan Kosen, 27, from Turkey was recognized as the tallest person in the world on September 17 as Ukrainian Leonid Stadnyk, who at 2.58 m (8.46 ft) was earlier labeled the tallest man on the planet, has refused to be independently measured.

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