Check my other channel Highlight History: https://www→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Follow Simon on social media: https://twitter.com/SimonWhistler https://www.instagram.com/simonwhistler/ Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut: Who Invented the Food Pyramid and Why You'd Be Crazy to Follow It https://youtu.be/-PBf58Molvc The Curious Case of the "Law of the Tongue" https://youtu.be/jvycCQCqI7A In this video: The man was Adam Rainer born in Graz, Austria sometime in 1899 (the exact date isn’t known). Rainer’s parents were neither tall nor short for the time, with his father measuring in at 5 feet 8 inches (1.72 m) and his mother at 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m). He even had a brother who matched his father’s height at 5 feet 8 inches. This wasn’t the case for Adam. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/01/the-man-who-was-a-dwarf-and-later-a-giant/ Sources: http://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/29/There-Once-was-a-Man-Who-was-a-Dwarf-and-Later-a-Giant/ http://www.shutterstock.com/