by Wetall | Nov 9, 2026 | Rankings
The tallest woman in recorded history was measured at 246.3 cm. The tallest British person in recorded history was a woman, and for fifty years after her funeral nobody could say where her body was. Jane Bunford of Bartley Green, on the western edge of Birmingham,...
by Wetall | Oct 19, 2026 | Rankings
Of the ten tallest basketball players ever recorded, two were born in England. Neil Fingleton, from Durham, reached 232 cm. Paul Sturgess, from Loughborough, reached 231 cm. Between them they played exactly nought minutes in the NBA. That is the British story of...
by Wetall | Jun 21, 2026 | Rankings
Every list of the tallest footballers ever leads with the same handful of names, and almost none of their heights can be traced to anyone who measured them. The figures come from squad databases, the databases copy each other, and the men at the top of the lists are...
by Wetall | Jan 23, 2023 | Rankings
Every list of cinema’s tallest actors is the same list, and every one of them gets two things wrong. It treats billed heights as measurements, and it leaves out the fact that several of the most famous giants on screen were British. Chewbacca was played by a man...
by Wetall | Jun 25, 2022 | Practical, Rankings
In early 2022 Wetall sat in 147 cars and scored each one for legroom and headroom. It remains the only test of its kind we know of, and we are not going to pretend it has aged well. It was carried out in French dealerships, on French-market cars, almost all of them...
by Wetall | Oct 27, 2021 | Rankings
Ten men have been measured at or above 2.46 m under conditions a record keeper will stand behind. This is that list, and it is shorter and more argumentative than it looks, because Guinness World Records publishes different figures for several of these men in...
