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TIL a Russian billionaire named Dmitry Itskov is working on a project known as the 2045 initiative with the end goal of it being to create a complete working model of a persons brain and putting in a robotic body with the hopes of completing it by 2045.

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167yO TIL that the word “fragging” refers to a soldier’s deliberate or attempted killing of a fellow soldier, usually a superior. The term was coined by U.S. military personnel during the Vietnam War, during which there were nearly 900 documented and suspected fragging incidents from 1969 to 1972.
E1Pk0 TIL in 2011, a write-in candidate for a board of education election needed only one vote to win, but she lost because she thought her friends/family would vote (they didn't) and was too busy at her son's baseball game to vote for herself.
4r0R TIL that because of South Park’s Scientology episode, The Church of Scientology hired people to spy on Matt and Trey to find something on them to use for blackmail. The Church became frustrated when their investigation turned up nothing but the fact that they’re pretty normal people.
8akaa TIL home AC power lines and outlets can carry Ethernet signals.
5VWMD TIL that an Australian man survived a wildfire by scuba diving in his friend’s pool while the fire raged around him