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Anderson Cooper Fast Facts:

The great-great-great grandson of New York Central Railroad founder Cornelius Vanderbilt.
While in college, he interned for the CIA. After graduation, he studied Vietnamese at the University of Hanoi.
Got his start in TV news on Channel One, the cable network that broadcasts to schools. He left after six months to do freelance reporting from world hot spots, including Burma, Bosnia and Rwanda.
Hosted ABC's short-lived reality show The Mole in 2001.
Has won news Emmys for his reporting on CNN and ABC.
His memoir, Dispatches from the Edge, topped the New York Times bestseller list in June 2006.