72-year-old Nepalese man claims to be shortest man
A 72-year-old man from western Nepal is hoping to prove to Guinness World Records that he’s the world’s shortest man.
A 72-year-old man from western Nepal is hoping to prove to Guinness World Records that he’s the world’s shortest man.
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Pilloried by neighbors, laughed at in freakshows and spurned by the women he admired from afar, Chandra Bahadur Dangi has always seen his tiny stature as a curse.
Guinness World Records experts said Thursday they are to travel to a remote valley in southwestern Nepal to measure a 72-year-old claiming to be the world’s shortest man.
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