The Strangest Humans Who Have Ever Lived

Your body follows rules. Ten fingers, ten toes, a certain size, bending only so far. But a rare few people were born so far outside those rules that doctors still struggle to explain them. The tallest human who ever lived. The shortest adult ever recorded. A man with twenty-eight fingers and toes who became a carpenter. A man slowly turning to solid bone. And a man born with no arms or legs who built one of the most inspiring lives on Earth. These are their real, documented stories, and the truth is, the body ends up being the least remarkable thing about them. We tell the true stories of Robert Wadlow, Chandra Bahadur Dangi, Devendra Suthar, Dede Koswara, Matthias Schlitte, Shridhar Chillal, Daniel Browning Smith, Harry Eastlack, and Nick Vujicic. Nine impossible bodies. Nine people who simply got on with living. 🔔 Subscribe for more of the strange, dark, and unbelievable truths behind the world you thought you knew. SOURCES: Robert Wadlow — tallest human ever verified, 8 ft 11.1 in; pituitary gigantism; died 1940 aged 22 from complications tied to leg braces/loss of sensation. (Guinness World Records; Wikipedia.) Chandra Bahadur Dangi — shortest adult ever recorded, 54.6 cm (21.5 in); primordial dwarfism; Nepal; traveled internationally late in life; died 2015. (Guinness World Records.) Devendra Suthar — most fingers and toes on a living person, 28 (14 + 14); polydactyly; carpenter from Gujarat, India. (Guinness World Records.) Dede Koswara — "Tree Man," epidermodysplasia verruciformis (EV); ~6 kg of growths surgically removed; no cure; father of two; died 2016. (ABC News; Wikipedia.) Matthias Schlitte — right forearm bone ~33% larger due to a rare genetic condition; professional arm-wrestler ("Hellboy"), Germany. (Documented interviews/profiles.) Shridhar Chillal — longest fingernails on one hand, ~9.09 m aggregate, grown ~66 years; India; cut in 2018 for museum display. (Guinness World Records.) Daniel Browning Smith — "Rubberboy," most flexible person; hyp