Marco Sies, a seven-time world kickboxing champion, got his start when he was 8.

Not his kickboxing start — that was actually several years earlier. No, Sies started his study of philosophy at age 8, when the precocious youngster from Santiago, Chile, devoured “Cosmos” by the astronomer Carl Sagan.

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