Tall Turk

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He's from eastern Turkey, he's a part-time farmer and he's the new Guinness World Record holder as the tallest man.  Sultan Kosen stands a towering 8' 1"....yeah, that's a tall glass of turkish water!  Now that he's a celeb., Sultan hopes to meet a lot of girls.  His dream is to someday get hitched.

The old record holder, Leonid Stadnyk of Ukraine, was 8 feet 5 and a half inches tall.  So why is he still not the title holder?  Leonid refused to be independently measured.

What are they feeding these guys?