Growth Spurt facts
While investigating facts about Growth Spurts In Babies and Growth Spurt Ages, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Growing Pains are not associated with growth spurts, and their actual cause is unknown.
how growth spurts?
A guy who was born a dwarf and grew to an adult height of barely 4' when he suddenly had a growth spurt to well over 7' making him into a giant.
What growth spurts do you have?
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what's growth spurt?
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Adam Rainer, who grew up as a dwarf and was only 111.5 cm (3 ft 8 in) by the time he was 19. Then, likely as a result of a pituitary tumor, he had a dramatic growth spurt so that at the age of 33 he had reached a height of 218 cm (7 ft 2 in). He died at age 50 he was 234 cm (7 ft 8 in)!
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Markelle Fultz dropped out of his high school’s basketball team because he was only 5’9” in sophomore year but after hitting a massive growth spurt that increased his height all the way to 6’5”, he became an NBA star.
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Michael Jordan was not cut from his high school basketball team, instead he played JV because the upperclassmen had playing time priority and he hadn't hit his growth spurt yet.
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Jeffrey Hudson, a dwarf who rose to prominence in the English court of the 1600s. He later killed a man and was exiled before being kidnapped and enslaved for 25 years by North African pirates. He attributed his growth spurt during this time to frequent sodomising by his captors.
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The character of Walt from Lost was going to have supernatural powers, which included telepathy, making things appear out of nowhere. When Malcolm David Kelley, the actor portraying him, had a growth spurt and couldn't portray a 10-year old, he was written out of the show at the end of season 2.
