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dec 30 Learn More Rudyard Kipling Born


Rudyard Kipling was born on this day in 1865. You've probably heard of his contributions to literature—books, stories, and poems like The Jungle Book, Kim, and "The Man Who Would Be King"—but how about his passion for science? The author's had some pretty sweet stuff named after him, including a crater on Mercury and an extinct species of crocodile, the Goniopholis kiplingi.

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