happy birthday john keats. if he had been born as a greenland shark instead of a human poet, he would still be alive today (and in fact barely half of the way through his natural lifespan; a greenland shark born on keats& #39; birthday is the shark equivalent of a 12½ yr old keats)

in sheer physical size, too, the greenland shark dominates. keats was 1.52m (and presumably shorter at 12½); the greenland shark can reach up to 6.4m. put another way, if keats was as tall as a shark is long, he would be almost the height of a single-decker bus

& #39;attacks on humans& #39; is a more evenly-matched category. the only confirmed attack by a greenland shark on a human occured in 1859; according to richard monckton milnes, keats & #39;administered a severe drubbing to a butcher& #39; in 1820