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Everything Everywhere Daily

The Legend of Andre the Giant (Encore)

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt | Glassbox Media

History, Education

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

On May 19, 1946, André René Roussimoff was born into the world in Coulommiers, France. At birth, he weighed 13 pounds or 6 kilograms...and from there, he only got bigger. He eventually topped out at 7 feet, four inches tall, weighed 520 pounds, and became a worldwide phenomenon as a professional wrestler and actor. He is one of the few humans to whom the adjective “legendary” can truly be ascribed. Today people still speak of his incredible feats in awe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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