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Who in his life managed to visit both a dwarf and a giant?

Austrian Adam Rainer is the only person known to history who was both a dwarf and a giant. At 21, his height was 118 cm, but then, for unknown reasons, he began to grow strongly and by the age of 32 reached 218 cm. Because of these disorders, he lived bedridden and died in 1950 at the age of 51 with a height of 234 cm .

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