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TIL Few tourists venture to Mindanao, the Philippines’ second largest and second most populous island as it is considered unsafe. Even Mindanao's tourism manager encounters few actual tourists and assumed an Englishman was there to find a wife

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x6V8o TIL Abraham Lincoln was a dual citizen of the United States and the tiny country of San Marino. He accepted honorary Sammarinese citizenship after recognizing them as a nation, saying “Although your dominion is small, your State is nevertheless one of the most honored, in all history."
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