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TIL Elijah Wood was 18 when he started filming as Frodo

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4XYjN TIL in 1963 that a 21-year-old rock and roll star named Ulysses Baxter pushed a peanut up Pikes Peak mountain with his nose! He had attached a salad spoon to his nose and pushed for 8 days until he reached the summit. The craziest part is that he wasn't even the first to do this!
5Yedr TIL that a UK zoo banned visitors from wearing animal print clothes because it confuses the animals. "If someone wears the same pattern to the animal's coat they can become over friendly," a zoo spokesperson said.
oRwAo TIL There was reportedly a 50-person pub brawl in a British pub over who would obtain the last bag of dry-roasted peanuts.
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.
9Xk7 TIL that shortly before 2 am on Feb. 6, 1858, over 30 members of the U.S. House of Representatives engaged in a fistfight which only ended when a hairpiece was ripped off one of the combatants, causing the melee to dissolve into “a chorus of laughs and jeers.”