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TIL German citizens can travel to 177 territories without a visa/visa given on arrival, the most in the world.

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VL0B TIL that Warner Bros executives didn’t like the idea of Tim Burton killing off Jack Nicholson’s character in the movie, Mars Attacks! In response, Burton had Nicholson then play two characters and killed both of them off.