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 By titan007 The first thing people tell you about Haley Kalil is that she is hard to file in a single drawer. A former pageant winner who can diagram an immunology pathway; a swimsuit model who jokes about lab goggles and pipettes; a digital comedian who once trained for the MCAT. On paper, those lines can read like a brand deck. In person — or, more accurately, in hundreds of self-made videos to tens of millions of viewers — they read as a kind of cheerful contradiction powered by Midwestern stamina and a scientist’s appetite for trial and error. Kalil, who was born Haley O’Brien on August 6, 1992, grew up west of the Twin Cities, in the small town of Victoria, Minnesota, and came of age with two mechanical engineers for parents. You can hear that lineage in the way she explains a joke as if it were a problem set, or turns a backlash cycle into a process chart. The family’s kitchen table math helped produce a summa cum laude graduate of St. Cloud State University — 4.0 GPA, dou...