An 11-Year-Old Boy in a Small Midwestern Town Just Became the Guinness World Record Holder for Being the Youngest Museum Curator
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“Anderson Taylor, an 11-year-old from Cambridge, Illinois, has been named the world's youngest museum curator. He opened the Cambridge Natural History Museum four years after he began collecting specimens.”
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