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Re:The Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat by harryh on Thursday August 17, 2017 @11:32PM (#15043342)
In the Netherlands a 6'4" male is in the 94.6 percentile.

https://tall.life/height-percentile-calculator-age-country/

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Re:The Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat by tehlike on Friday August 18, 2017 @07:52AM (#15045322)
US: Tall: 98.9 Percentile

Netherlands: Kinda Tall: 94.6 Percentile

Kinda Tall is probably not something you'd call necessarily rare.

And if you check 6' 2'' (which is my height),

US: Kinda Tall: 94.6 Percentile

Netherlands: Above Average: 82.2 Percentile

So i think my point stands :)

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