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TIL actress Jodie Foster began talking at 9 months, taught herself to read at age 3, landed her first gig as the Coppertone Girl in a commercial at age 3, got an Oscar nomination at age 12, attended Yale, and has an ancestor that came over on The Mayflower.

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