Bao Xishun is the tallest man on earth towering at 7 feet 8.95 inches tall. The Mangolian herdsman was asked to come to China to help extract plastic that dolphins had eaten from around the pool they were in.
Their attempts to use instruments had failed, because the dolphins kept contracting their stomachs. The dolphins at the aquarium in Fushun had become depressed and lost their appetite since ingesting the plastic. The heads of the dolphins were held back and towels wrapped around their teeth so Mr Bao could not be bitten.
He then extended his 1.06m-long arm into the mammals' stomachs and pulled out the plastic shards. The 54 year old Bao was of normal height until he was 16 and then he shot up like a weed. He beat out the previous tallest man by only 2 millimeters.