TIL in 2003, 12yo Auri Allen was featured on Ripley's Believe It or Not due to his massive size, nicknamed Baby Shaq. By 2006, he was regarded as one of the top 5 basketball players in the country, until a car crash paralyzed him. He later became a Head Coach and founded his own basketball academy.
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www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2004/01/05/curious-winnebago-yarn-unravels-under-scrutiny/62008352007/ Here's a newspaper - also the linked story itself says the story is not true (if poster had read the whole story it's clear