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Everybody has probably seen one of those photographs that show a dwarf and a giant side-by-side. For example...
Now imagine the same person taking up both positions in different times in their life.
Adam Rainer was born in Austria in 1899. By age 18 he was only 4ft 6 tall, with adult dwarfism being defined as under 4ft 10.
However, despite being so small, medical records show that Rainer had remarkably large hands and feet. At age 18 and 4ft 10 he wore US size 10, or what we would call size 9 shoes.
As WW1 was breaking out that same year he tried to join the army, but was rejected for being much too small. He probably wished he was bigger.
Three years later, aged 21 and now 4ft 8, his feet had doubled in size to US size 20 (so big I can't find a conversion chart, for comparison Shaquile O'Neill is US 23).
However, it wasn’t just his hands and feet that experienced this massive growth spurt, it was his entire body.
By the time he was 31 he measured 7ft 1, almost 2 1\2 feet in ten years. He was now technically a giant.
This was all caused by a tumor on his pituitary gland which led to an overproduction of growth hormones.
After this was removed he continued to grow, but much more slowly.
He died aged 51, 7ft 9, the only person in recorded history to have been th a dwarf and a giant.0 -
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IvyTheTerrific wrote: »Anecdote is not data...
Been debunked several times here already.
I’ll just go back to my corner so and search for something new
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Chancer3001 wrote: »Just to emphasise the difference between million and billion.
A million seconds is around 11 days.
A billion seconds is over 31 years!
And another thing about a million, if you got a euro every single day since Jesus was born you still wouldn't be near having a million euro.
Well, yeah, you'd only be getting them since 2002 like.
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The word agitprop originated in Soviet Russia as a shortened name for the Department for Agitation and Propaganda set up c. 1920. The department was later renamed the Ideological Department.
The term 'agitprop' is now defined as a type of political strategy in which the techniques of agitation and propaganda are used to influence and mobilize public opinion. 'Agiprop' as a shortened combination of two existing words is reminiscent of George Orwells ideas of Newspeak as detailed in his book 1984.
In the years after the October Revolution of 1917, an agitprop train toured Russia with artists and actors performing plays and broadcasting propaganda. The train had a printing press on board to reproduce posters which were distributed by being thrown out of the windows as the train passed through villages.
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harry Bailey esq wrote: »Did you you know that 'going greek' is a term for anal sex and grease is a byword for lube
Reminds me of the scene in 'Last Tango in Paris' where Marlon Brando says to yer one, get the butter....
Did you hear about the Greek who got a green card for the US but didn't go - because he didn't want to leave his friend's behind.Not your ornery onager
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I did not, but if I had I would have certainly worded that sentence differently!harry Bailey esq wrote: »Did you you know that 'going greek' is a term for anal sex and grease is a byword for lube 0 -
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Con man "Count" Victor Lustig convinced six scrap metal dealers to bid on the Eiffel Tower. Apparently he got the idea when he read an article about how the Eiffel Tower was rusting, and the financial drain of its high maintenance costs and repairs. Since the tower was only supposed to stand for 20 years, some Parisians were saying it should be taken down entirely.
Not one to miss an opportunity, Lustig devised a plan to convince the city's biggest scrap-metal dealers that he was a government director charged with the discreet task of selling off the Eiffel Tower's scrap metal. To keep up pretences, he rented limousines and gave tours of the landmark, and insinuated not only that this was very hush-hush government business, but that he could be bribed into accepting the winning bid.
One dealer was convinced, and paid Lustig $20,000 in cash plus an additional $50,000 to make sure his was the winning bid. Once he had the money, Lustig scarpered off to Austria to lay low while the story broke — but it never did since the dealer was too embarrassed to report Lustig's scam.
Lustig later returned to Paris and gave it another try, but was worried one of the scrap dealers had notified the police. He fled to the U.S. where he was ultimately caught operating another scam. In fact, as I write this I see that during his time in America he managed to scam Al Capone! Wiki entry on it below:When the Great Depression hit, Lustig concocted a risky scam aimed towards Al Capone, knowing that he faced certain death if he was found to be betraying or sought to ruin his mark. For Lustig, the scam was not a straight-out con, but one designed around a mind game with his target that would get him to part with a small amount of cash. The scheme involved him asking Capone to let him invest $50,000 towards a crooked scam, whereupon he kept the money given to him within a safe deposit box for two months before returning it. When he did, he claimed that the deal had fallen through, but that he intended to return the money, which surprised Capone by the fact he was dealing with an honest man for the first time. At this point, Lustig stung him with a claim that the failure of the deal meant he had no money himself to support him, convincing Capone to give him $5,000 to "tide him over", as Lustig had planned.
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