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TIL billionaire Sean Parker was considered a genius at a young age. In high school he was recruited by the CIA after winning a computer science fair and was making $80,000/year by the time he was a senior

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loKGG TIL that Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin were all nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
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