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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1411645)7/24/2023 5:24:02 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Respond to of 1572358
 
She graduated from their version of high school.


Sweden requires children to attend school between the ages of 6 and 16. Most Swedish students complete their upper secondary studies at 19; Ms. Thunberg, who is 20, took a year off to focus on her work, including taking a sailboat across the Atlantic Ocean to speak at the U.N.


Greta Thunberg Ends Her School Strikes After 251 Weeks - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

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"Heck, she even got a theology degree "
She got more than that; law degree, Doctor honoris causa, a few more awards, and a genus of spiders

Species named in Thunberg's honour
The following species have been described and named after Greta Thunberg:

Nelloptodes gretae, by Michael Darby, Natural History Museum, UK, December 2019, a new species of beetle from Kenya in the family Ptiliidae. [283] Its long antennae bear a passing resemblance to her braided pigtails. [284] [285] [286]

Craspedotropis gretathunbergae, by Schilthuizen et al., 2020, a new species of land snail from Borneo in the family Cyclophoridae. [287]


Thunberga greta, in a new genus Thunberga gen nov, both by Peter Jäger, June 2020, a new species of huntsman spider in the family Sparassidae. [288] By 2021 the new Thunberga genus contained twenty-five newly described spiders, all from Madagascar and Mayotte, many in honour of other inspirational young people. [289]

Opacuincola gretathunbergae, by Verhaege & Haase, 2021, a new freshwater snail from New Zealand in the family Tateidae. [290]

en.wikipedia.org