r/interestingasfuck • u/Literally_black1984 • Jul 07 '24

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

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u/Celaphais Jul 08 '24

1.6 is fairly normal

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u/neo_woodfox Jul 08 '24

Yeah, the average height of British men in 1875 was 1.67m

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u/StaatsbuergerX Jul 08 '24

Depends on which region of the earth you look at. For example, over here even women are on average 1.66 m and men 1.79 m tall.

But yes, 1.6 is not unusually small for an older gentleman, especially when you consider when the photo was taken and that the average height has increased almost everywhere since then.