‘The World’s Strangest Married Couple’: Circus Life In The 1930s

Growth Spurts

By the time he was just 12 years old, he outgrew his father, Santo, who was 6 feet and 3 inches tall!

Giantism

His parents, Santo Tomaini and Maria Bossone decided to take their son to a doctor to see why this was happening.

The physician they went to took many X-rays and tests and discovered the cause of his incredible height was an over-active pituitary gland.