The tropical rainforest biome is an ecosystem that covers about 7% of the Earthâs surface. They are found all over the world but the majority of the tropical rainforest lies in South America in Brazil. The weather in the tropical rainforest is rainy yet pleasant all year round, day or night.
The tallest man living is Sultan KÃ¶sen (Turkey, b.10 December 1982) who measured 251 cm (8 ft 2.8 in) in Ankara, Turkey, on 08 February 2011. The part-time farmer was the first man over 8 ft (2.43 m) to be measured by Guinness World Records in over 20 years.
While he was alive, Illinois-born Robert Earl Hughes was the heaviest recorded man in the world. At his peak, he weighed a whopping 1,071 lbs (486 kg), and his chest was recorded as being 10.3 feet (3.15 m) wide. Hughesâs obesity was blamed on a malfunctioning thyroid gland.