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- 01Wadlow's size 37AA shoes required custom construction; he could not feel them due to nerve damage.
- 02A faulty leg brace caused a fatal infection; he died July 15, 1940, eighteen days after his 22nd birthday.
- 03At death he was 8 ft 11.1 in and still growing — there was no biological ceiling in sight.