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TIL that men from the early Middle Ages were nearly as tall as modern people, but European men’s average height fell from 5.6 ft in the 13th c. to 5.3 ft in the 17th c. due to famine, disease, war, and the Little Ice Age, then rose to 5.4–5.5 ft in the 18th c.

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