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TIL North Korea is 49.48% the size of the United Kingdom. United kingdom being 243,610 km² and North Korea 120,540 km²

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xVa5D TIL That the characters Timon and Pumbaa were only put in the movie The Lion King because Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella audition so well together. They had originally auditioned for the hyenas, but were so funny that Timon and Pumbaa were created for them.
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lJZa TIL a pair of twins, June and Jennifer, spoke in a cryptic language only to each other for 30 years. After 14 years in a mental hospital, one of the twins was found dead, with no apparent cause. The living twin finally spoke: “I’m free at last, liberated, and Jennifer has given up her life for me.”