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TIL The Scottish Highlands, and Appalachian Mountains in the Eastern US are a part of the same mountain chain

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0wx1v TIL that one of the top security experts at the FBI, Frank Abagnale, was also one of the most successful con-mans of all time. He posed as a pilot to travel for free on over 250 flights to 25 countries aged between 16-18, and had scammed his father out of $28k (adjusted for inflation) aged just 15.
vEXL TIL that some elevators have a mode called Sabbath service which let people use the elevator without pressing a button
KO4ZE TIL that boerewors, a type of sausages from South Africa, are regulated by the SA government: must be 90% meat, 10% spice, no more than 30% fat from the meat.
P14JV TIL that the first footage of a real war was shot by Frederick Villiers during the Battle of Volos in 1897
e0yOL TIL the differences between AI and Machine Learning are: in ML, the system learns from data. It does not make its own decisions. In AI, the system makes decisions. ML is one of the many goals of AI. AI has multiple goals like reasoning, computer vision, robotics, machine learning, etc.