World's Tallest & Shortest Men meet in UK for Guinness Anniversary (Video)

It was a true case of the long and the short of it when the World Tallest man met up with the World's Shortest on Thursday as part of a special event to mark the 60th anniversary of the Guinness World Records.

The World's Tallest man is Sultan Kösen who hails from Turkey and reaches an impressive 8 foot, 3 inches (2.51 meters) in height. In the video we see him shake hands with the World's Smallest Man, Chandra Bahadur Dangi, who hails from Nepal and measures in at 21.5 inches (54.6 centimeters) tall.

When Kösen achieved his record he said he never imagined he would be in the book.  "I dreamed about it, but it was still a huge surprise," he said.

According to the Daily Mail, Dangi is the same size as six cans of baked beans, stacked on top of each other.

It seems smallness is in the family as three of his five brothers were under four feet tall.  However his two sisters and the other two brothers are of an average height.