World's shortest person lives in Nepal - 54.6cm high, official - video

The world's shortest man - indeed the shortest person ever - is officially named as 72-year-old Chandra Bahadur Dangi of Nepal.

Dangi, who lives in a remote village 250 miles west of Kathmandu, has been measured at 54.6 cm (21.5 inches) high by Guinness World Records. He has been given two certificates.

He has five brothers of average height and his family doesn't know when he stopped growing.

Dangi wants to travel across Nepal and the world.

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World's oldest person, 114, dies in Brazil

The world's oldest person, a 114-year-old woman, has died in Brazil.

Born in 1896, Maria Gomes Valentim, of Carangola, was just 18 days away from her 115th birthday.

She was declared the oldest living person by the Guinness World Records only last month, beating Besse Cooper of Georgia, in the United States.

BBC


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