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We've had a text in from Ross which I'm going to read out because it backs at my point

and it also feeds into my new mantra that I will not be made a fool of.

Yes, people are taller now than in the 80s.

This is not due to rapidly accelerated evolution into a species of giants.

This is purely because things like nutrition and vitamin intake is far better nowadays

if you were in your 30s, in the 80s, then you would have grown up in Britain during the

post-war period when we were the stickman of Europe living in cramped in a city condition

with a lack of sunlight, poor nutrition, as well as less knowledge about pregnancy and

how things like smoking and drinking can affect children in utero.

Now we know better, hence why we are generally taller, Ross Nedgibra, Russian and continued

until 1954.

Yeah.

There we go.

And have you seen her car from the 80s recently?

No, no, no.

Well, you will be shocked at how small they are.

And when you see one up close, you will be shocked as Google Image one by all means,

but you will be shocked.

Didn't you find, as statistic said, we're on average one centimetre taller than the 80s?

That's the Americans.

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