Another strange story is the one of Adam Rainer; the only recorded man to be both a dwarf and a giant. At 18 he was just 4 foot tall (about 1.22m) but when he was 30 hes was 7ft 2 inches (about 2.22m)
Angus was also accosted by an uppity Canadian wrestler (name unknown) who was trying to bait him into a fight. Angus refused and insisted on shaking hands. The wrestler changed his mind about the fight when blood started squirting from under his fingernails.
for some reason I read the title as "Queen Victoria was obsessed with giving, GIANT PEOPLE, gifts" like the queen was giving out giant people as gifts to people lol
The thing is, I wonder if she was inviting them purely to stare or if there was ulterior intent. As stated in other comments, people at both ends of the height scale were subjected to ridicule and abuse by the common man. I assume the upper class was just as bad, but it could have been a misguided attempt at humanising these people that were routinely dehumanised. Now most likely, I want to say it was a lack of entertainment. But I have to leave the incredibly slim possibility it was a misguided attempt at helping people.
a 4' 11" woman was infatuated with the super tall and super short .. sounds about right. the fact she had the power to fuel her infatuation is the key, she had some odd obsessions and unlike 99.9% of people had the power to feed her wants. I dont see it as dark or mean spirited just a person with odd tastes and the power to fulfill them. many people have odd questions / obsessions for a lack of a better word but dont have the ability to indulge.
I'd place my bets on a lifetime supply of shampoo and hair conditioner. No reason not to be the most fabulous giant hairy forest monster in all of Britain.
Looking at the wiki for Martin Bates, I don’t think he had pathological gigantism, because he lived to 81 and most people with gigantism, like his wife Anne, don’t live to age 50 because their hearts usually give out pretty young.
I totally read the title wrong. I was expecting to learn about the giant gifts Queen Victoria would give to people, and then they would have to find a way to bring home.
“So, does people staring at you for being big annoy you too?” “Bro, I hate people staring at me for my size…” “you wanna crush the normies by hand with me?” “Fuck yeah!”
Freak Shows were a conflicted thing. On the one hand yes they were exploitive, but on the other the performers were paid extremely well, and allowed people with disabilities to make a living. They're a fascinating piece of history.
Honestly if I had a unique deformity and got invited to the queen's palace, I would be extremely suspicious that I would just end up being trapped there for the rest of my life.
At this point I've just given up and settled that this is NOT set in Romania... cause we all know how hard it is to type the name in google and make it pronounce it in Romanian. And for all of the apologists: Fuck off. Lazy voice actors is not a valid excuse. Dumitrescu is a common surname in Romania.
Angus mckaskils arms are preserved and up on display in a pub in the Victorian district of Sacramento. They’re 4.75 feet long and as big around as a gallon of paint in the smaller sections
Never thought about that until. Think about how many times a day you walk thorugh your house. NOw in a hurry. Now imagine you have to duck EVERY doorway. No thanks
Victoria isn't the only monarch of the time with an obsession with giant humans. There was the Prussian king who was trying to "collect" them by a lot of means, including abduction (if I'm remembering right) to build a battalion of them for his army...the Potsdam Giants is an interesting thing as well. I'm not actually sure which is a worse thing there, Victoria inviting them just to gawk at them, or Frederick Willham trying to force them into service...and trying to actually "breed them" to make more.
I too am tired of hitting my head on random things like doorways and hanging lights, never had issues with door heads except for at hotels and going down into basements
Angus must've been the descendent of Goliath or something. Even if he was 7'9 his weight would've been around 280. Meaning he was able lift an anchor over 10 times his weight.
I can't believe I've been watching these videos for so long, and just now, Karl Smallwood is boasting about my great, great uncle Angus MacAskill and my incredible family genetics. His lineage has gone on to be Olympic wrestlers, Highland Games athletes, and is usually the strongest person in the room of any room they are in.
I'm 6'7" (200.66 cm) and I understand the desire to have larger door frames. And taller ceilings. And less steep stairwells (running into the ceiling hurts). And more legroom on public transportation. And...
My eldest brother is about your range, and if I had a nickel for every time he's walked into the ceiling fan entering a room I'd have 3 nickels. It isn't much but he ducks everywhere he goes now.
@@Gauldame Oh and chandeliers. Why do people insist on putting chandeliers over dinning room tables so you can hit your head on it sitting down AND standing up?
Not sure. We all stayed in a cottage in Wales and because it was old the ceilings were only five foot high and no one could fit in the shower because the ceiling sloped. Everyone banged their heads a lot.
Not as tall as you, but when an extra building was added to our workyard, the boss called me over, had me stand where the door would be, so he could measure above my head to mark how high the door should be.
Just watch The Greatest Showman, it has this scene of P.T. Barnum's Circus meeting Queen Victoria and has a lot to do with the mistreatment of performers in "freak shows"
As gross and exploitative as Freak Shows seem, if you were a disabled person at the time they were popular, they probably represented a better career opportunity than most of the available alternatives. You could earn good money and could be a part of a community of other people with disabilities who wouldn't judge you as harshly as the general population. Being part of a Freak Show was probably better for a lot of people than being in their original communities.
Another strange story is the one of Adam Rainer; the only recorded man to be both a dwarf and a giant. At 18 he was just 4 foot tall (about 1.22m) but when he was 30 hes was 7ft 2 inches (about 2.22m)
He just said fuck life and grew a metre taller
Do you know if this affected his body in any way? like idk seems like growing a meter at what 20ish would do you some harm.
@@matissequaylepetit7592 think of it like how teenagers go threw a growth spurt I would imagine that on a bigger scale with the growing pains to boot
Pituitary glad defect I would assume?
It's like a Pokémon evolving
Angus was also accosted by an uppity Canadian wrestler (name unknown) who was trying to bait him into a fight. Angus refused and insisted on shaking hands. The wrestler changed his mind about the fight when blood started squirting from under his fingernails.
Jesus Christ dude...
He wasn’t on the battlefield at that point, he was carrying it, or just throwing cannon balls at people, no cannon just pure man
💣💨🦵
It is *GOOD DAY* to be *GIANT MAN*
"Turns out he was just very, very hurt"
absolutely hilarious
i mean you get punched by a living saiyan and sent flying 5 feet your gonna bloody well feel it
“I’m 7 ft, your 7 ft, are you seeing what I’m saying? ... if that’s not good enough I’ll get a house custom made for us”
They're both nearly 8 ft, but yeah
I mean, they'd squish a normal sized person at the time if they were intimate with them... most men at the time were like what 5'7"?
This man seriously did a presentation in history class once and thought to himself, “I wanna do this as a job but to thousands of people.”
for some reason I read the title as "Queen Victoria was obsessed with giving, GIANT PEOPLE, gifts" like the queen was giving out giant people as gifts to people lol
To show you the power of Flex Tape I tore this boat in half!
Fun fact: Dimitrescu is in the top 3 tallest villains in resident evil
my bf makes really tasty wings..not quite as big as a house.. but its the little things I think :)
It's the little wings his clout...
I can respect everything about this. Hope you live well with a stomach of wings
This is so cute omg
Not everyone can build a house, it’s the effort that someone puts in to the relationship that makes them endearing.
That sounds nice. Is your bf single?
As a very small man, I'm envious of these giants.
I wanna lift an anchor for a meme too ;-;
7ft 11 inch is 2.41m
4ft 11 inch is 1.50m
9ft 6 inch is 2.90m
7ft 9 inch is 2.36m
Thank you very much.
Thanks mate
Thank you for converting the retard units
woah woah woah how are you just gotta put angus in there as a feature!, we demand a whole video on the strongest man to ever live!
Pretty sure he said he was going too at a later date.
@@TheEthanEdge awesome
I would expect nothing less from the queen that was addicted to cocaine chewing gum
Imagine having to look up at a 90⁰ angle just to talk to someone
I pray every day, I'll have you know :p
Just stand a bit further away
Imagine that someone bowing and still looking up at them from the throne
I wanna learn more about Angus now
The thing is, I wonder if she was inviting them purely to stare or if there was ulterior intent. As stated in other comments, people at both ends of the height scale were subjected to ridicule and abuse by the common man. I assume the upper class was just as bad, but it could have been a misguided attempt at humanising these people that were routinely dehumanised.
Now most likely, I want to say it was a lack of entertainment. But I have to leave the incredibly slim possibility it was a misguided attempt at helping people.
a 4' 11" woman was infatuated with the super tall and super short .. sounds about right. the fact she had the power to fuel her infatuation is the key, she had some odd obsessions and unlike 99.9% of people had the power to feed her wants. I dont see it as dark or mean spirited just a person with odd tastes and the power to fulfill them. many people have odd questions / obsessions for a lack of a better word but dont have the ability to indulge.
Fun fact: Frederic Wilhelm I of Prussia used to kidnap unusually tall men to serve in his personal guard
I wonder if she would have given a giant hairy forest monster like me anything
I'd place my bets on a lifetime supply of shampoo and hair conditioner. No reason not to be the most fabulous giant hairy forest monster in all of Britain.
@@Neoxenok & it'd have that nifty seal "By Appointment Of Her Majesty The Queen" o'course!
She might if you were a Yeti since Bigfoot isn’t real
Looking at the wiki for Martin Bates, I don’t think he had pathological gigantism, because he lived to 81 and most people with gigantism, like his wife Anne, don’t live to age 50 because their hearts usually give out pretty young.
He could have just been lucky I guess
@@TheEthanEdge That’s some Stephen Hawking level of luck surviving with a condition for that long
I mean, look at Linda Hunt, aka Hetty Lang from NCIS LA. She's 76.
@@CosRacecar she’s a dwarf, not a giant
@@alexthebat9012 Really? Hadn't noticed.
But seriously, dwarfs have a lot of the same health problems and a similar reduced life expectancy.
I totally read the title wrong. I was expecting to learn about the giant gifts Queen Victoria would give to people, and then they would have to find a way to bring home.
“So, does people staring at you for being big annoy you too?” “Bro, I hate people staring at me for my size…” “you wanna crush the normies by hand with me?” “Fuck yeah!”
Freak Shows were a conflicted thing. On the one hand yes they were exploitive, but on the other the performers were paid extremely well, and allowed people with disabilities to make a living. They're a fascinating piece of history.
What if she was a master basketball player like Obama and challenged all her guests to a friendly game of basketball so she could dunk on them
Cause prince would show up and deliver the whoopening
@Nate Macrae that's what they want you to think
"master basketball player"
Really? 🤨
Read the title and thought, "that's got to be a typo.... It should be "giving people giant gifts, right?""
Nope.
Bruh Queen Victoria wanted to be a size queen or loved the sized difference.
Honestly if I had a unique deformity and got invited to the queen's palace, I would be extremely suspicious that I would just end up being trapped there for the rest of my life.
I actually grew up in the town where Anna Swan was born Taamagouche NS!
The house where she lived when she was younger was a tourist attraction
DIMITRESCU!!! WITH A FUCKING U AT THE END! 🤣🤣🤣
Cant wait to learn more about that anchor lifting man.
What did her husband think? Probably something like "It doesn't matter who preheats the oven, as long as I get to bake with it."
Big ol vampire mommy is not a sentence I thought I’d be hearing today
Why does everyone say, "Di-mah-tresk?" There's a U there. She even says it in an IE cutscene.
Its a name with a non English origin, different language and all that. It is also pronounced "Di-mah-tresk" throughout most of the game.
At this point I've just given up and settled that this is NOT set in Romania... cause we all know how hard it is to type the name in google and make it pronounce it in Romanian.
And for all of the apologists: Fuck off. Lazy voice actors is not a valid excuse. Dumitrescu is a common surname in Romania.
Angus mckaskils arms are preserved and up on display in a pub in the Victorian district of Sacramento. They’re 4.75 feet long and as big around as a gallon of paint in the smaller sections
Big recognizes big.
Her husband: "Well I can't tell em off now can I?"
There’s also a story you should look at about king Frederick William I, where I think he had like a small army made up entirely of super tall people
You really do live in a different world when you casually rip boats in half.
Maybe he was Phil Swift's ancestor.
Dude I wanna see a giant's house, I'm almost six feet tall myself but I bet that'd be a trip...
should do a Louis Cyr episode. That dude was unreal and he was only like 5ft 7. good episode
1:15 it is easy to see the other in a crowd
God, don't you just love this channel. Amazing stuff as always FF team :)
Love coming home from work and seeing a new fact fiend video :)
22lbs isnt a baby, she gave birth to a toddler holy crap I know the extremely tall have health problems but only one day has to be heart wrenching.
Holy shit that last guy may as well just be kratos
To show you the sealing power of flex tape, I tore this boat in half!
Never thought about that until. Think about how many times a day you walk thorugh your house. NOw in a hurry. Now imagine you have to duck EVERY doorway. No thanks
8:44 my whistle is wet looking forward to that video.
Victoria is one of the few "World Rulers" I feel bad for. Thankfully, a Chad-ass Scotsman made her feel more "human" before the end.
Me n her and EVERY OTHER WOMAN on the planet that heard you say 22 pounds: GOD!!!
There's a Dutch bodybuilder called Olivier Richters. We need a time machine so he can play tug with old Angus. Rip a few boats.
Queen V was down bad
She may rule over people but she respects those who tower over her.
Victoria isn't the only monarch of the time with an obsession with giant humans.
There was the Prussian king who was trying to "collect" them by a lot of means, including abduction (if I'm remembering right) to build a battalion of them for his army...the Potsdam Giants is an interesting thing as well.
I'm not actually sure which is a worse thing there, Victoria inviting them just to gawk at them, or Frederick Willham trying to force them into service...and trying to actually "breed them" to make more.
Ey, talking about the Queen!
Have you guys ever considered uploading just the aduio in a podcast format? Like on spotify or something?
Sounds like Queen Victoria would have been a big fan of André the Giant and pro wrestling in general 🤔😂
home is where you dont hit your head
I too am tired of hitting my head on random things like doorways and hanging lights, never had issues with door heads except for at hotels and going down into basements
Angus must've been the descendent of Goliath or something. Even if he was 7'9 his weight would've been around 280. Meaning he was able lift an anchor over 10 times his weight.
Around 425 pounds actually, visit Englishtown, Nova Scotia for more information on the Cape Breton Giant
@@davekleiser9654 we learn something new everyday
So to be considered a giant, one has to be 6’2” or taller.
So he was bran the blessed. High king of albion, and prototype for King arthur.
Always a delight.
I can't believe I've been watching these videos for so long, and just now, Karl Smallwood is boasting about my great, great uncle Angus MacAskill and my incredible family genetics.
His lineage has gone on to be Olympic wrestlers, Highland Games athletes, and is usually the strongest person in the room of any room they are in.
Lady D still makes me uncomfortable. She looks 100% like my grandmother at 30 or 40. All the way down to her smile. (Obviously adding a few feet too)
dude between the 2 of them they could have straight up just Eaten the Queen and ended the monarchy right there.
I want to live on that house. I hit my head too much where I live now.
Need a life story of the giant couple
Haha she was a weird one
thank heaven for 7'11"
Sounds like Queen Victoria will lose her mind if she could I go on to a NBA game
I'm 6'7" (200.66 cm) and I understand the desire to have larger door frames. And taller ceilings. And less steep stairwells (running into the ceiling hurts). And more legroom on public transportation. And...
My eldest brother is about your range, and if I had a nickel for every time he's walked into the ceiling fan entering a room I'd have 3 nickels. It isn't much but he ducks everywhere he goes now.
@@Gauldame Oh and chandeliers. Why do people insist on putting chandeliers over dinning room tables so you can hit your head on it sitting down AND standing up?
Not sure. We all stayed in a cottage in Wales and because it was old the ceilings were only five foot high and no one could fit in the shower because the ceiling sloped. Everyone banged their heads a lot.
Not as tall as you, but when an extra building was added to our workyard, the boss called me over, had me stand where the door would be, so he could measure above my head to mark how high the door should be.
Just watch The Greatest Showman, it has this scene of P.T. Barnum's Circus meeting Queen Victoria and has a lot to do with the mistreatment of performers in "freak shows"
You could say... that was really _B工G_ of her...
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As gross and exploitative as Freak Shows seem, if you were a disabled person at the time they were popular, they probably represented a better career opportunity than most of the available alternatives. You could earn good money and could be a part of a community of other people with disabilities who wouldn't judge you as harshly as the general population. Being part of a Freak Show was probably better for a lot of people than being in their original communities.
I like to imagine Queen Victoria's husband just smiled to himself while he thought: "But I'm the one she invites into her bed."
As far as he knows.
Queen Victoria likes her men Big!!!
She was small with an even smaller hat
Zing! *clap*
Great.
Out of curiosity what happened to the after main video tangents does anyone know?
She liked giving people giants
i am most certain lady D is inspired by Hashakku-sama, the giant woman that abducts people, namely children.
Surprised she didn't make these guys arm wrestle!
big lady :D
According to Fact Fiend, I'm nobody :(
Great
Of course classic liz
I’m 6’9”, maybe I coulda got a cupcake or something 🥺
General arm strong from full metal who?
Wow
Martin Bates is 1800s Hasan Piker lol
Cheese
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I have no clue what happened to the channel but it seem like view counts are low.