After reading about 17-year-old Maci Currin, from the USA, and how she strutted into the Guinness Book of Records, to claim the title of Woman with the World's Longest Legs, we though we'd share a video on the World's Tallest Man Ever. News Biters, meet Mr Robert Wadlow, aka the Alton Giant, born on February 22, 1918, in Alton, Illinnois, USA. He died at 22 years later in July, 1940.