On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 15:56:15 GMT, WingedMessenger <Boy@Flying.high>
wrote:
>The shortest recorded adult male dwarf was Calvin Phillips, born on Jan 14
>1791 in Bridgewater, Massachusetts USA. He weighed 2lb at birth and stopped
>growing at the age of 5.
>When he was 19 he measured 26.5 inches and weighed 12 lbs with clothes on.
>He died 2 years later, in April 1812, from progeria, a rare disorder
>characterised by dwarfism and premature senility.
>
>
>The longest animal ever recorded is the giant jellyfish Cyanaea Arctica,
>which is found in the north-western Atlantic Ocean. One specimen washed up
>in Massachusetts Bay in 1865 had a bell diameter of 7.5 feet and tentacales
>measuring 120ft, thus giving a theoretical tentacuclar span of some 245
>feet.
>
>
>The French composer Louis Jullien (1812-1860) was recorded as having the
>most christan names, because all 36 members of a Philharmonic Society
>insisted on being godfathers.
>
>Mercury.
My my, aren't you a cornicopia of information today.
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