What never ceases to amaze me is how enormous the difference between various human beings is. We’re such a fascinating species because, at the end of the day, a human being is just another animal but no other animal has such variety.
Take for instance this photo above. Mike Tyson at the age of thirteen, and Muhammed Ali at the age of twelve. You often see memes of when “puberty hits” but it hits some of us differently… for some, it’s a gentle tap on the shoulder. For others, it’s the hormonal equivalent of being hit by a freight train.
What about the picture above? The gentleman above was called Henry Behrens. And no, his cat was not enormous — Henry was, in fact, enormously tiny. In the 1930s, he was known as “the smallest man in the world”. So even though his cat was a fairly normal-sized creature, to Henry he was a “Black Panther”.
This picture above shows two pairs of hands. One belongs to a regular bloke, the other belongs to André Roussimof, better known to the world as “André the Giant”. André was a seven foot tall man who suffered from a tumor in his pituitary gland called acromegaly. As a result he over-produced growth hormone, causing his body to never stop growing. As a result he grew to be… absolutely massive.
These are just a few examples of what amazes me about the human body. The variety of it. How small and how enormous it can get. How we all grow in different directions, at different rates. How no two of us are the same. And how yet, somehow, we’re all the same species.