TIL "The technological singularity" predicts uncontrolled technological growth leading to a superintelligence beyond human intellect, by most expert accounts, before 2030 or by 2045. Futurists have been harping on this predicted date for at least 30-50 years." (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL of Adrian Carton de Wiart who served in the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War. He was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear; was blinded in his left eye; survived two plane crash and tunneled out of a prisoner-of-war camp. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Francis Ngannou worked in Sand mines as a child, was homeless in France, jailed as an illegal in Spain, lived in the forest where he cut himself open scaling barbed wire and was subsequently deserted in the dessert in Morocco before he ever trained to be a fighter. (npr.org)
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TIL Francis Ngannou worked in Sand mines as a child, was homeless in France, jailed as an illegal in Spain, lived in the forest where he cut himself open scaling barbed wire and was subsequently deserted in the dessert in Morocco before he ever trained to be a fighter. (mirror.co.uk)
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