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Junrey Balawing Is Guinness’s Little Man By The Big Coca Cola Bottle

by | 14th, June 2011

JUNREY Balawing mask his 18th birthday and coincidentally the Philippines’ Independence Day by being declared the world’s smallest man. He measures 23.5 inches high (59.93 centimetres). But how do you show the folks at home and the nationalist that your man is so very small? Well, Guinness stand him next to lots of…Coca Cola bottles. And don’t you become a man – a real man – at 39, or when Jeremy Kyle says so..?

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Junrey Balawing poses for a Guinness World Records-hired photographer after a series of measurement conducted by its representative at Sindangan Health Center, Sindangan township, Zamboanga Del Norte province in Southern Philippines Saturday June 11, 2011, the eve of his 18th birthday which is coincidentally is the Philippines Independence Day. Officials said Saturday Balawing was measured at 24 and 1/4 inches (about 61 centimeters) lying down and about two inches shorter than the current record holder Khagendra Thapa Magar of Nepal and is expected to be officially named as the world's shortest living man when he turns 18 Sunday. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)



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