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TIL that the worlds shortest world leader was President Benito Juárez of Mexico at only 4 feet 6 inches (1.37 meters) and the tallest was Maharana Pratap, King of Mewar in present day Rajasthan (a state in India), at 7 feet 5 inches (2.2 meters)

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