Random gems from @Snowden wiki:
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His maternal grandfather, Edward J. Barrett, a rear admiral in the U.S. Coast Guard, became a senior official with the FBI and was at the Pentagon in 2001 during the September 11 attacks.
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In the early 1990s, while still in grade school, Snowden moved with his family to the area of Fort Meade, Maryland.
Mononucleosis caused him to miss high school for almost nine months. Rather than returning to school, he passed the GED test and took classes at Anne Arundel Community College. Although Snowden had no undergraduate college degree, he worked online toward a master's degree at the University of Liverpool, England, in 2011.
I've never heard of someone with a GED skipping a bachelors program and automatically entering a Masters program? Anyone else??