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Minnesota's "Young Sheldon" turns out to be real-life friends with sitcom actor

Elliott Tanner, a teenage physics PhD candidate, has been dubbed Minnesota's own "Young Sheldon." Ironically, he is real-life friends with the actor who plays the beloved young sitcom scientist. But as WCCO's David Schuman shows us, this friendship is far from being the only interesting thing about Elliott.
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