Is there any example of two surface having same first fubndamental form are whose second fundamental form are different.

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I know that two surfaces are isometric if and only if they have same first fundamental form. I can not think of any examples of two surfaces in $R^3$ which have the same first fundamental form but different second fundamental form. Is there an example of two surfaces with this property?

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Compare $\mathbb{R}^2$ and the cylinder $\mathbb{x}(u,v)=(\cos u, \sin u, v)$. They have the same first fundamental form given by: $E=G=1,F=0$. But the second fundamental form of a cylinder is: $L=<U,\mathbb{x}_{uu}>=-1 \neq 0$.