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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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8LXP TIL that California uses inmates to fight forest fires. Prisoners take the jobs because it reduces their sentence, gets them outside, and pays better than typical prison jobs.
8p5b TIL - Anderson Cooper is related to Cornelius Vanderbilt and a Civil War general, was a Calvin Klein model, interned at the CIA, studied Vietnamese, lived in Africa and caught malaria…
jW7E TIL of John ‘Mad Jack’ Churchill, a British Army officer who fought throughout the Second World War armed with a longbow, bagpipes, and a basket-hilted Scottish broadsword. He holds the last recorded kill with a bow and arrow in action.
Y7MvZ Today I learned about prosopagnosia, a condition which inhibits/removes your ability to distinguish people based on their facial features and expressions, even loved ones and relatives.
mdpx TIL that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were hemp farmers and preferred smoking the flower of the plant to using tobacco or alcohol