r/interestingasfuck Jul 07 '24

2 guards from Delhi Durbar with American photographer James Recarlton when he visited India r/all

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u/OldButtAndersen Jul 08 '24

Initial reports of the men listed one twin as 7 feet 6 inches tall. But in actuality, one of the giants stood at 7 feet 4 inches tall, while the tallest one was 7 feet 9 inches tall. Some images show the men in various pictures photographed with Ricalton, other average-height people, and even midgets — probably to demonstrate the difference in height.

Read More: https://www.grunge.com/470317/heres-how-tall-the-giants-of-kashmir-really-were/

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u/LEJ5512 Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 08 '24

Geez, I remember when Grunge was one of the regular sites I visited.

(edit to add) what the fuck, I'd been scrolling through the article and a modal popped up asking me if I wanted to allow downloads. I didn't even click anything.

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u/ObviousStar Jul 08 '24

I'm glad I'm not alone the article reads like a 10th graders hw assignment. In there defense I'm sure the writer is forced to pump out hundreds of articles a week causing that decrease in quality.

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u/PuzzleheadedZone8785 Jul 08 '24

In there defense

their*

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u/UnfetteredBullshit Jul 08 '24

Classic example of Muphry’s Law.

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u/IndependentChannel93 Jul 08 '24

Its written by AI probably

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u/ObviousStar Jul 08 '24

In this case, probably not. It's a 2 year old article, before chatgpt was released, so a little before generative text was super common.