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When was the first midget discovered?

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there was a whole tribe of them, blue I think they were, all male and one female. They didn't know they were midgets since they were all the same size. The old man of the tribe suspected, however, that they weren't the only tribe in the country. well, I think its true anyway. (:
Midgets are just born. They are not discovered. Their size is a genetic anamoly and midgets occur in every racial group. There have been midgets in every royal court since the Egyptians. Now if you are actually referring to pygmies, that's different. Those people are small due to diet, genetics, and environment. They've been known since at least 1200 AD.
If by "midget" you mean "dwarf", there are been a number of dwarfs who have been "discovered" and made famous over the centuries. For example, Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren: "In the year in which Borulwaski died, 1837, the line of publicly exhibited dwarfs was continued by the birth of the existing American pigmy, Charles Stratton, better known as "General Tom Thumb." In 1844 he appeared in England, where his grace, vivacity, and good humour made him popular, from the royal family to the general public, before whom he acted at the Lyceum Theatre. He also made his appearance on the stage in Paris. After extensive travel in both hemispheres, he again visited England in 1857, but the dwarf man, despite many personal and intellectual qualities, was less attractive than the dwarf boy. In the year 1863 the 'General' married the very minute American lady, Lavinia Warren (born in 1842), with whom he has seen many lands, and they are now enjoying honourable retirement in their own."