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TIL Swaging is a forging process in which the dimensions of an item are altered using dies into which the item is forced.

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rN7W1 TIL when actor Christopher Lloyd arrived to audition for the role of Jim Ignatowski on the television show Taxi, unshaven and unshampooed, the receptionist thought he was a homeless person who had managed to wander past security and onto the Paramount lot.
6pmJ TIL King Harald of Norway vowed to remain unmarried for life unless he could marry his true love, the daughter of a cloth merchant. She became the Queen of Norway.
0dQYN TIL Gastroenterologist Takanori Takebe won the 2024 Physiology Nobel Prize for discovering that mammals can breathe through their anus
JYX6Q TIL the birth control pill used to be known as the "red pill"
PGVL TIL that in 2014, Dallas Police engaged in a six-hour standoff with an empty apartment