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TIL Johnny Cash voiced the the pepper-induced hallucination/spirit guide/Coyote in The Simpsons

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b9eRE TIL that when you get a kidney transplant, they don't replace your kidney(s), they just stick a third one in there.
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.
9w7BG TIL the idiom "Keeping up with the Joneses" came from a comic strip of the same name that ran in U.S. newspapers from 1913-1940. It featured the McGinis family, often struggling to keep up socially and materially with their neighbors, the unseen Joneses.
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