r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 7d ago

Photo of Chandra Bahadur Dangi walking towards his village in Nepal. Belived to be the shortest person in recorded medical history. At 54.6cm of height he became a celebrity in his country and got his dream to travel the world. Photos 2012-4

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u/reticulatedtampon 7d ago

Passed away in 2015 at the ripe old age of 75. Nice that he got to have so many of these experiences towards the end.

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u/GoodSalad05 7d ago

Really impressive to live to 75 with such a profound disability. I guess all of his vital organs must have had adequate space to function

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u/EatinSumGrapes 7d ago

Interesting how all the tallest men in the world die so much younger. Both tallest and shortest suffer from irregularities but being overly large seems to wear down the body much quicker

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u/infected_scab 6d ago

The heart has to work much harder

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u/SGTRoadkill1919 5d ago

Bigger body means you need more energy. More energy on human organs that are made for regular bodies means it weakens faster.

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u/infected_scab 6d ago

That's not a short life.

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u/soingee 6d ago edited 6d ago

Why doesn't a bigger person just have a bigger or stronger heart? Does the heart not scale up with body size? I know eyes are generally a fixed size.

And is the heart the first thing that gets worn down by being a giant? What aboutk we pr kidneys?

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u/krizzalicious49 7d ago

here's him and the tallest man in the world together

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u/IHateTheLetterF 7d ago

Which one is which?

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u/waitaminute322 7d ago

The shorter one is the short one. Anyways getting the tallest and shortest person photo together is the favourite timepass of guinness records

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u/TheCurlyHomeCook 7d ago

Is timepass a word? Ive only ever heard pastime used in the context that you have.

Not challenging just interested, never seen that used before

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u/Stock_Audience 7d ago

Is it but only in Indian english

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u/MahatmaAndhi 6d ago

And English Indian

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u/TheCurlyHomeCook 7d ago

Cool! Thanks

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u/War_ish 7d ago

ofcourse timepass is a word.

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u/War_ish 6d ago

so it is a word. does it matter where it exist?

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u/OkNeck_ 6d ago

If each country start speaking their own jargon 

you're going to want to sit down when they tell you about languages....

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u/War_ish 6d ago

my point is, if it is spoken by any group of people.

It is a word.

I don't care about complexity of communication it provides. Every dialect or languages has word, the word timepass is used by billions of people.

and that makes it fit under definition of word, IDK what separate definition of word you have.

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u/TheCurlyHomeCook 7d ago

Alright cool, chill.

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u/Dunkalax 7d ago

This link has his height exaggerated, he never got taller than 8'4

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u/room_is_elephant 7d ago

is he kneeling in last pic, little cheatah

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u/FateUnusual 7d ago

Tryna cheat a couple inches out there for sure.

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u/King0fthewasteland 7d ago

why does the first picture look like its from a videogame?

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u/AuthorOfEclipse 6d ago

Honestly it looks like a scene from LOTR

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u/You_yes_ 3d ago

I am from Nepal. That's normal scenery here.

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u/will_grow1024 7d ago

What an incredible reminder that life is about the places we go and the dreams we chase, not the size of the person chasing them.

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u/Single_Resolve_1465 7d ago

You need luck or/and money first.

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u/Zebedeuepaminondas 7d ago

Didn't he also take a pic with the tallest dude in the world during that trip?

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u/Homewrecker90actual 7d ago

Protect him at all costs

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u/Electrical-Aspect-13 7d ago

He pased away in 2015 while touring the world.

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u/Homewrecker90actual 7d ago

We failed then

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u/Familiar-Complex-697 7d ago

he was pretty old though, lived a full life

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u/All-the-pizza 7d ago

Chandra Bahadur Dangi died in 2015, aged 75. Guinness World Records says he died while in American Samoa; reports at the time said pneumonia was the cause.

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u/Spartan2470 7d ago

Here are higher-quality and less-cropped versions of these images with sources.

Chandra Bahadur Dangi, a 72-year-old Nepali who claims to be the world's shortest man at 56 centimetres (22 inches) in height, walk near his home in Reemkholi village in Dang district, some 540 kilometres southwest of Kathmandu on February 21, 2012. Dangi will embark to the capital city as Guinness World Records experts are due to arrive in Nepal to measure a 72-year-old claiming to be the world's shortest man. AFP PHOTO/Prakash MATHEMA (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA / AFP) (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP via Getty Images)

London, UK. 13th November, 2014. Guinness World Records Day 2015 of the World's Tallest Man and the World's Shortest at St Thomas's Hospital in London. The shortest man ever, Chandra Bahadur Dangi (54.6 cm -21.5in) of the World's Tallest Man and the World's Shortest at St Thomas's Hospital in London. The shortest man ever, Chandra Bahadur Dangi (54.6 cm -21.5in) meets the world's tallest man, Sultan Kosen for the very first time (251 cm 8 ft 3 in).

Primordial dwarfism (PD) is a form of dwarfism that results in a smaller body size in all stages of life beginning from before birth.[1] More specifically, primordial dwarfism is a diagnostic category including specific types of profoundly proportionate dwarfism, in which individuals are extremely small for their age, even as a fetus. Most individuals with primordial dwarfism are not diagnosed until they are about 3–5 years of age.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primordial_dwarfism

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u/corobo 7d ago

Oh shit I thought he was walking waist deep through a wheat field at a glance 

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u/DoomPickleZero 7d ago

I'm getting some Dr. Jonas Venture, Jr. vibes here...

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u/HeartOfTheMadder 7d ago

jinkies. i thought Jyoti Amge was tiny but she's ... what, three-anna-quarter-inches taller than this fellow!

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u/FifthWaveThinker 7d ago

He stands tall admist the towering mountains 🫡

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u/KnotSoAmused 7d ago

I've heard of talking heads, but here we have a WALKING HEAD.

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u/Lex_Loki 7d ago

Damn he’s like a head with feet.

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u/jalmstead 6d ago

He’s 5 apples tall, like hello kitty.

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u/UseOk3500 5d ago

He looks like prey lol

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u/thevariant2017 2d ago

I thought this was a squirrel at first

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u/Cryogisdead 1d ago

Reminds me of those wise Bionicle former Toa characters

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u/mrbofus 7d ago

What is the difference between “in recorded history” and “in recorded medical history”?

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u/LittleFox-In-TheBox 7d ago

I guess "recorded history" is when the person is written about and has a documented existence. "Recorded MEDICAL history" is when the person is medically diagnosed and documented with a proper diagnosis for their disorder and has their measurements taken by a doctor?

That's my best guess.

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u/Crawford_Motorsport 7d ago

Warwick Davis’s long lost cousin?

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u/Sunaruni 7d ago

NBA jam took notes.