Imaginary Tall Latvians Who Get Things Down from High Shelves
in “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” (July 27, 2016)
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1 min readJan 8, 2018
Jimmy: Ladies and gentlemen, this is a story that caught my eye today. According to a new study, the United States is falling short when it comes to height. American men and women used to be the tallest people in the world. Now we rank 37th and 42nd.
The tallest men and women now are from the Netherlands and Latvia. It’s like my mother always said, “If you need to get something down from a high shelf, call a Latvian.”
