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TIL that the Hasty Pudding Theatricals is a theatrical student society at Harvard University, known for its burlesque crossdressing musicals. Alumni include Teddy Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, John Quincy Adams, Joshua Max Brener (Bighead on the Silicon Valley TV show), and Ted Kennedy, among others.

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