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TIL Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania during WWII, saved over 6000 lives by unlawfully issuing travel visas. When his consulate was being shut down and he had to evacuate, witness claim he was still writing visas and throwing them out the window as the train was pulling away.

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