Tidbit Thursday

A bit of genius trivia-
- Picasso finished one of his greatest paintings, Le Picador, at the age of 8.
- Shirley Temple won her first Academy Award at the age of 7.
-Ted Kaczynski, the famous killer was admitted into Harvard at the age of 16, went on to receive a PhD in mathematics and took a job as a professor at UC Berkeley by the age of 25.
- Yo-Yo Ma was performing for audiences at age 5 and had to stand on phone books to play his cello.
- Tiger Woods broke 80 by the age of eight on the golf course.
- Akrit Jawal came to fame by performing surgery at the age of 7. But before then- He skipped crawling as a baby and went straight to walking, was reading Shakespeare by the age of 5, and was in college by 12!
- British writer, Daniel Tammet, was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome years ago. Now he is 26, and a mathematical genius who can figure out cube roots quicker than a calculator and recall pi to 22,514 decimal places. But he also can't drive a car, wire a plug, or tell right from left.
-Judit Polgar achieved the title of Chess International Grandmaster at the age of 15, the youngest ever to do so at the time.
- Juana Inés de la Cruz learned how to read and write at the age of three. By age five, she could do accounts, and at age eight she composed a poem on the Eucharist. By adolescence, she had mastered Greek logic, and at age thirteen she was teaching Latin to young children. She also learned the Aztec language of Nahuatl and is the only woman on Mexican currency.