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How Tall You Are Is The Outcome Of A Genetic Battle Of The Sexes
For women looking to pass on their genes, it pays to be short. For men, tall is the ideal. The result? An evolutionary tug-of-war in which neither gender reaches their perfect height. Those are the...
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How Tall You Are Determines How You Will Die
How tall people are is linked with how they might die, with taller people more likely to die from cancers, and shorter people more likely to die from heart problems or stroke, according to new...
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20 Of Hollywood's Shortest Celebrities
It's often very hard to tell how tall a celebrity is just from seeing them on the big screen or TV. So it shouldn't be surprising that some celebs are much shorter than they appear.Kim and Kourtney...
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This 20-Year-Old Is A Permanent Toddler
Little Brooke Greenberg has shining eyes that twinkle when her mother takes her clothes' shopping, pushing her stroller through the infant wear department of their local stores, where Brooke gets her...
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21 Of Hollywood's Tallest Celebrities
It's difficult to tell how tall a movie or TV star actually is from just seeing them on the big screen.Earlier, we gave you a look at some of the shortest stars in Hollywood.Now, here are the ones who...
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11 Male Celebrities Who Are In Relationships With Taller Women
A height difference which bucks the trend is no obstacle to love in celebrity circles.We take a look at the famous men who date taller women.Mick Jagger has a history of dating Amazonian beauties, from...
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17 Photos That Will Show You How Big NBA Players Really Are
NBA players are some of the biggest human beings on the planet.It's easy to forget that fact when watching an NBA game where all the players are equally huge.But when you get these players off the...
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs Shoot The First Music Video Atop The Empire State Building
Yeah Yeah Yeahs have become the first band to shoot a music video at the top of New York City's Empire State Building. The clip for Despair – a small part of which has been posted online– was made in...
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Humans Grew More Than 4 Inches In The Last 100 Years
It is a commonplace for children to be taller than their parents, but four generations ago this wasn’t the case. A recent study of soldiers around the age of 20 who enlisted in the army during World...
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How People Get Tall
Emperor Napoleon I of France lends his name to an insecurity complex that supposedly plagues some short men. But the neurosis is misnamed: At five-foot-six, Napoleon practically towered over the...
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Economists Explain Why Tall People Make More Money
LinkedIn Influencer Shane Snow published this post originally on LinkedIn.The average American man is 5' 9". Women are closer to 5'4".The average 20th-century American president, on the other hand, is...
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Why Dutch people are so tall
The Netherlands is the land of giants: On average, its women stand almost 5 feet 6 inches tall and its men 6 feet tall. But how the Dutch became the world's tallest people has been somewhat of a...
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Taller does not mean healthier — and here's the proof
If you've ever had a tall man stand in front of you at a concert, blocking your view, and wished that he would have a heart attack, the odds were against you.Tall men are less likely to develop heart...
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The financial perks of being one inch taller are staggering
In the 1960s and 70s, Thomas Gregor, an anthropologist at Vanderbilt, traveled to central Brazil to see if height was prized by people beyond the developed world. For years, he observed the Mehinaku, a...
View ArticleWe took a GoPro on the tallest drop ride in the world and it was terrifying
Six Flags in New Jersey has built something really scary. But we like adventure, so we put a GoPro on and went along for the ride. Watch to see what it feels like to drop more than 400-feet in under...
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Science says being tall could make you richer and more successful — here's why
If there was ever a tall tale, it's this: People of different heights have equal opportunities to achieve success in life.Instead, scientific research seems to suggest that tall men and women have a...
View ArticleThis rope bridge over a 220-foot drop in Peru is the last of its kind
Would you trust a bridge made entirely of grass? Even worse, would you trust a bridge made entirely of grass to keep you safe above a whopping 220-foot drop?Q'eswachaka Bridge is the last of its kind....
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Why astronaut Scott Kelly grew 2 inches during his year in space
Astronaut Scott Kelly is back on American soil after an eventful year. Kelly spent 340 days aboard the International Space Station before making it back to Earth on Tuesday. During his time up there,...
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A new study shows the 'strongest evidence to date' that height and weight...
A new study offers the “strongest evidence to date” that overweight people and short people face social and economic barriers to success because of their size.Using genetic data from more than 119,000...
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New research reveals that your height and weight may affect your success
As if gender wasn't a shallow-enough reason for the persistent wage gap, a new study found that height and weight have been added to the mix, too. More specifically, if you're a short male or an...
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