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The world's shortest woman

A dancing, cheerleading 69cm (2ft 3in) tall American has been named world's shortest living woman by Guinness World Records.

Bridgette Jordan, 22, from Sandoval, Illinois,also holds the record for shortest living siblings with her 20 year-old brother Brad.

Standing at a comparatively lofty 96.5cm, Brad lists his hobbies as basketball, karate and gymnastics.

Music-lover Bridgette likes to stay active and often spends time dancing and cheerleading.


Bridgette Jordan likes to stay active and often spends time dancing and cheerleading

On her record-breaking achievement she said: "It feels awesome. It's great to be small. I believe that everyone should be confident in themselves."

Her brother added: "Hopefully this will go a little way to helping people realise it's OK to be different."

The siblings, who have Majewski osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II, live with their parents in Sandoval and study at Kaskaskia College.

Bridgette breaks the record of 22-year-old Elif Kocaman, from Kadirli, Turkey, who measured 72.6 cm.

Jyoti Amge, 17, from Nagpur, India, is currently recognised as the world's shortest teenager, standing at just 61.95 cm.
Source: dailyrecord.co.uk

Published Sept 22 2011

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A beggar with cars and properties

A man, who often seen begging for money on the streets of Bejing in China, has been found to be richer than anyone can imagine.

He has four cars and several properties in Beijing, Jiangxi Satellite TV reported in its morning news on Tuesday.

The news has immediately captured the attention of the netizens, who conducted a search on the beggar's identity.

According to the news report, the man is living in the China's capital with a mother and two sons.

"His mother wears a lot of gold jewellery, and his sons use branded stuff from head to toe," the TV station claimed.

"He is richer than those who gave him money," a netizen said.

The man is often seen on the streets of Xidan district.

He would kowtow to everyone who walked pass him, asking them for money and thus gained his nickname "Xidan Kowtow King".

A netizen, however, sympathised with the beggar, saying he was not wrong, by law, just lack of moral.

Some said they would not give him money anymore.
Source: Jiangxi Satellite TV

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