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Guinness Book of Records: World's Longest Legs, Meet World's Shortest

Tuesday September 16, 2008 11:35 AM EDT

He Pingping, the world's smallest man, with Svetlana Pankratova

Fred Duval/FilmMagic

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Talk about having the world at your feet: Svetlana Pankratova has longest legs on record, nearly 52 inches, according to those who know – the people at Guinness World Records.

To celebrate Pankratova's feat – and the publication of the 2009 record book – she was joined in London's Trafalgar Square by another of the volume's entries: He Pingping, from China, and, at 2 ft. 5 in., officially the smallest man in the world.

And that's the long and short of it.
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