Now, although you might be thinking, "what does her being tall have to do with anything?" I know that you are incredibly smart people who are going to assume that today's event has something to do with height. Probably the heights of humans. Because you are smart like that.
On this day in 2011, Junrey Balawing, a resident of Sindangan in the Philippines, was given the title of world's shortest living man by Guinness World Record officials during his eighteenth birthday celebration (so happy 19th birthday for today Junrey).
Balawing stands at a total of 59.93 centimetres tall, or about 23.59 inches. It's fascinating to think that the body can just not grow like that. I know that your body does reach a point where it stops growing, but to think that it would happen, in the case of Balawing, before the age of two is just bizarre. Doctors couldn't explain why Balawing was short and I think that would bug me to no end!
What would bug me further would be finding out less than 8 months later that you are no longer the shortest living man.
Yes, in February of this year, Chandra Bahadur Dangi or Nepal, was declared the world's shortest living man, standing at 54.6cm (21.5 in).
6 centimetres difference. It can't be a good thing that people keep getting shorter, can it? And what cause people to have this sort of physical condition where they don't grow? The human body is a weird, weird thing. You can have incredibly tall people and incredibly short people and bunch of people in between.
Just weird. But good weird.
Image available: http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/857684-new-worlds-smallest-man-poised-to-claim-title
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