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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/tatianalarina1 on 2025-03-15 23:17:48+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Jeffrey Hudson, a court dwarf of the English Queen Henrietta Maria, shot a man in a duel, after which he went into exile, was captured by Barbary pirates, spent 25 years enslaved in North Africa during which he grew 25 inches, which he attributed to the hard conditions.