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TIL that Expert systems were among the first truly successful forms of AI software.They were created in the 1970s and then proliferated in the 1980s,being then widely regarded as the future of AI — before the advent of successful artificial neural networks.

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BVee TIL Otto von Bismarck once stated that when war came to Europe “it will be some damn fool thing in the Balkans that sets it off” thirty years before Franz Ferdinand was assassinated which kicked off the start of World War One.
MgPm TIL President Ronald Reagan signed MLK Jr. day into law in 1983. At first, some states resisted observing the holiday as such, giving it alternative names or combining it with other holidays. It was officially observed in all 50 states for the first time in 2000.
Gg64 TIL baseball player Tim Raines would often use cocaine between innings in the dugout, and would only slide head first to avoid breaking the cocaine vials that he carried in his back pocket.
neRob TIL on Christmas Day 1914, British and German troops spontaneously decided on a truce during which they “shared cigars, good cheer, chocolate and, in more than one place, a game of soccer”.
DPOp TIL that Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower, after serving two terms as President of the United States, sought and received his reinstatement as a General of the Army. Ike believed that history would hardly remember his service as President, but would never forget that he commanded the D-day invasion.