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TIL during the Punic Wars, the Romans realized they had no clue how to build ships. They decided to rent row boats, run aground a Carthaginian ship, and plagiarize the designs. The entire first fleet of their new Navy was based off this ship, but learning to row proved more challenging.

oBnwo TIL that in 1958, Larry King got into a car accident with JFK. JFK reportedly yelled “How could you? Early Sunday morning, no traffic, I’m parked—how could you run into me?” When King simply offered to exchange information, the Senator agreed he’d forget about it if King promised to vote for him.
xJP1 TIL Viggo Mortenson was offered to reprise his role in The Hobbit films. He asked, “You do know, don’t you, that Aragorn isn’t in The Hobbit? That there is a 60-year gap between the books?” Apparently, after that the filmmakers didn’t even formally offer Mortensen the chance to return.
9wO9M TIL Lockheed’s Skunk Works was named as such be of a stench. The original team had a super time critical first project and had to sleep near Lockheeds assembly plant in a parking lot in a rented circus tent - next to a plastic factory.
1alZ8 TIL babies are born without proper knee caps. Instead they have cartilage on their knees that eventually hardens into bone. The lack of boney knee caps makes them more flexible during birth and while learning to crawl and walk.
KOLRR TIL that the happiest children in the world live in the Netherlands