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TIL there is an island in Brazil which is quarantined due to a snake infestation

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781VL TIL about the town of Catatumbo where lightning strikes ~1.2 million times per year
b9pN9 TIL Parasitoid Wasps pierce their pointy stingers into other insects. They lay eggs inside the living hosts, and the wasp hatchings eat their way out of the still-living prey.
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.
wLVOP TIL scientists have begun using the soot on feathers of birds in museum collections to track changes in air pollution over the last century. The specimens yield very precise data on black carbon levels.
8aKbZ Today I learned that NASA’s first spacestation SkyLab crashed down to earth sooner than expected and landed on Australia. No one was hurt, but NASA was fined $400 by Australia for littering.