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🗓️ 6 October 2021
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0:00.0 | The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily. |
0:04.0 | On May 19, 1946, Andre Renee Rousamoff was born into the world in Kulimi, France. |
0:14.3 | At birth he weighed 13 pounds or 6 kilograms, and from there he only got bigger. |
0:20.4 | He eventually topped out at 7 feet 4 inches tall, |
0:23.0 | weighed 520 pounds, and became a worldwide phenomenon as a professional wrestler and actor. |
0:29.0 | He is one of a few human beings to whom the adjective legendary can truly be ascribed. |
0:35.1 | Today people still speak of his incredible feats in awe. |
0:39.0 | Learn more about Andre the Giant, the eighth wonder of the World on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. This episode is sponsored by the Travel Photography Academy. |
0:57.0 | In 2007, I sold my home to travel around the world. |
1:03.5 | I bought an expensive camera that I didn't know how to use |
1:06.3 | and took a bunch of terrible photos. |
1:08.3 | Several years, a hundred countries, and tens of thousands of photos later, I had improved my photography to the point |
1:14.5 | where I was winning national awards being named Travel Photographer of the Year three times in |
1:18.7 | North America. I created the Travel Photography Academy so you don't have to spend the many years that I did to improve your photography. |
1:26.0 | Even though we can't easily travel right now, you can still work on improving your photography at home and in your own community. |
1:33.0 | Just go to travel photography academy.com |
1:36.0 | or click on the link in the show notes |
1:37.8 | to start improving your photography today. |
1:41.0 | As I noted in the introduction, Andre Rosamoff was a very big baby. He was born in rural France to parents who were farmers. He grew up very quickly. By the age of 12 he was |
1:55.1 | already six feet three inches tall or a hundred and ninety one centimeters. At the |
1:59.6 | age of 14 he finished school as that was the end of compulsory education in France at the time. |
2:05.3 | He spent the next several years doing manual labor on his family's farm and at a local factory. |
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