The crack news team here at the All About Midgets 24 Hour News Room has scoured textbooks, research articles, museums and the Internet to bring you 20 weird and unbelievable facts about midgets.
1. It is illegal to own a midget in Cambodia without a national license.
2. Dwarfs cannot detect the color green.
3. Einstein technically qualified as a midget. Through the use of trick photography, he appears of average height.
4. Everyone is familiar with the story of Noah, but did you know that two ancient translations of the Holy Bible quote God as telling Noah "to gather two people of the shortest height such that their unique posterity is preserved"?
5. If you challenge a midget to a fight and you lose, you will become a midget. At the beginning of time, God created one midget, and everyone was like "come on, midget," and now they are everywhere. Let that be a lesson to all of us.
6. During the Franco-Prussian war, midgets were used as projectiles when soldiers ran out of rocks.
7. Dwarfs have a reputation for being obstinate and grumpy. If you kick a midget between the legs, he will emit a sound that can only be heard by dogs, hamsters and small children.
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8. The first Angel to ever be discovered and used as evidence by the religious community for proof of an afterlife was actually the remains of a dwarf skydiver who collided with two geese.
9. If you turn off the lights and recite the phrase, "Bridget the Midget is a sexy buxom midget," a magical dildo will appear in your hand. Accidentally forget one of the words and the dildo will appear in your butt.
10. If at first you don't succeed, you're not a midget.
11. If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around, midgets still hear the tree fall.
12. The theory of evolution is a lie. Today's world is simply a smattering of creatures the midgets have allowed to live.
13. Elephants are afraid of midgets. Midgets are afraid of elephants. Weird.
14. The number of midgets is rising. If current trends continue, the number of little people will outnumber that of average-sized people by the year 2316, thereby rendering midgets average.
15. The most common cause of death among midgets is drowning. They cannot float in water due to their disproportionate muscle-to-fat ratio.
16. Most midgets cannot see through double-paned glass.
17. When a midget stares into the mirror, his reflection resembles that of a giant.
18. Montana was once recognized as the world capital of midget porn. Today, it's Seattle, Washington.
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19. Male midget genitalia are the same size as the average-sized human, but their testes are the size of a North American soybean.
20. Midget tears have been shown to reduce the risk of cancer in laboratory rats, but, tragically, midget urine has been linked to mesothelioma in adult females.
There you have it, folks. Take the time to enlighten your friends. Show them you're a Midget expert. And no matter what happens, don't challenge a dwarf to a bar fight.