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TIL there are almost 50 times more sheep in North Korea than South Korea. North Korea has 257.9k sheep, while South Korea has 5.4k sheep.

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QJ7ZM TIL that Mike Mignola, the creator of Hellboy, was a production designer for Disney's "Atlantis: The Lost Empire". Mignola was a major influence on the art direction of the movie, and the animators put a lot of effort into capturing his unique art style.
PYdJZ TIL of the Valley of the Balls, featuring curious natural stone spheres.
bJK7 TIL that Jadwiga of Poland (d. 1399) was a female king. Polish law had no provision for a female ruler (queen regnant), but did not specify that kings had to be male.
xyy0 TIL that hippo milk is pink
kON4E TIL Isaac Newton spent 50 years (and wrote 4,500 pages) trying to predict the date for the end of the world using a biblical code. He finally settled on 2060 and this was not known for over 250 years until his papers on the issue were found in a trunk in at the house of the Earl of Portsmouth.