Guinness is on the lookout for a new world’s shortest man today after the current record holder, He Pingping of China, passed away.  Shockingly, He Pingping was only 21 years of age at the time of his death while doing publicity for Guinness in Rome.  He was admitted to the hospital two weeks ago with chest pains and passed away on Saturday, but his death was only announced last night/early this morning.

If I had to guess, I’d say the new world’s shortest man will be Khagendra Magar, who at 22 inches tall is even shorter than He Pingping was.  It has to be awful being so tiny, but at least He got to have a little fun and soak up a little spotlight before he passed on.  People with primordial dwarfism are generally medically fragile (or so Verne Troyer’s Surreal Life appearance showed me), but I had no idea just how bad it was for them.

Image: Telegraph

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