A 72-year-old Nepalese man who is about the size of a toddler this week became the world’s shortest person ever measured.
A doctor and a Guinness World Records official examined Chandra Bahadur Dangi to confirm his height of 21.5 inches.
(If you’re not sure how tall that is, it’s the height of a newspaper page!)
Guinness official Craig Glenday presented Chandra with two certificates for being the world’s shortest living man and the world’s shortest person recorded in Guinness’s 57-year history.
“I am very happy. Now I want to travel across Nepal and to foreign countries,” Chandra told reporters.
He would also like to meet the prime minister of Nepal soon.
Chandra lives in a remote mountain village with his youngest brother and his family. His five brothers are all average height.
Before being measured in the capital, Kathmandu, on Saturday, he had never seen a doctor, and his relatives say he has never been seriously ill or had any injuries.
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