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TIL Brendenn Bremmer was a genius–started reading as a toddler, played piano at age 3, delivered a high school commencement speech at age 10, and breezed through college courses with an IQ of 178–who committed suicide at age 14 with no warning signs of depression and no explanation or suicide note

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