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Today's pick
Famous, fabulous, and ready to be broken open.

Greta Thunberg

Started skipping school on Fridays with a hand-painted sign and ended up shaming entire parliaments. Proof that one quiet teenager can rattle the whole climate debate.

Top 5 interesting facts
  1. 1Began her first solo school strike outside the Swedish parliament in August 2018, age 15.
  2. 2Sailed across the Atlantic in a zero-emissions yacht to avoid flying to a UN summit.
  3. 3Was named TIME's youngest-ever Person of the Year in 2019.
  4. 4Has been diagnosed with Asperger's, which she calls her 'superpower.'
  5. 5Her 'How dare you' UN speech has been remixed into dance tracks more times than she'd like.
Sound-alike breakdowns
  • Greater Thunder-Berg
    weather titan
  • Grete A Thunb Erg
    viking sneeze
  • Great-a Tunn-Berg
    musical iceberg
  • Greet a Thumb-Burg
    very small city
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