Robert Wadlow

01Juba's general Saburra lured Curio's 10,000-man army into a valley in 49 BC; almost none escaped; Curio refused evacuation and died there.
02After Thapsus, Juba found no town willing to shelter him; he dined with the Roman commander Petreius, then the two men fought a duel to the death — Juba killed Petreius, then had a slave finish him.
03Years earlier, Caesar had proposed a bill to annex Numidia; Juba's hatred of Caesar was therefore partly personal legislative grudge.

01The study used only mitochondrial DNA, which passes exclusively through mothers — 'Eve' had a contemporary male counterpart, 'Y-chromosomal Adam,' who lived roughly 60,000 years later.
02The name 'Mitochondrial Eve' was coined by journalist James Wainscoat, not the scientists; lead author Allan Wilson publicly disliked it.
03Eve was not the only woman alive at the time — she was simply the last woman whose unbroken maternal line survives today.

Anthony "Tino" De Angelis

Robert Wadlow stood 8 ft 11 in and wore size 37 shoes. His pituitary gland never received the signal to stop. He died at 22, still growing, from a brace that chafed into sepsis.