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TIL German and Swedish passports are the most powerful passports in the world. The least powerful is from Afghanistan.

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4koxw Today I learned that the Ancient Greco-Roman practise of placing coins in the eyes or mouth of the deceased as payment for Charon was still practised in Cambodia recently under a different religious belief.
1a8eW TIL that Calvin Graham was the youngest U.S. serviceman to serve and fight during World War II. He enlisted in the United States Navy from Houston, Texas on August 15, 1942, at the age of 12
6EYRm TIL, Venus is the only planet that rotates around the sun in a clockwise pathway. All planets, when observed from the North Pole are seen to be rotating around the sun in an anti-clockwise direction on their elliptical orbits. Venus is observed to rotate in a clockwise manner.
7dex TIL there’s an annual festival for goths at Disneyland. It’s called “Bats Day at the Fun Park.”
Mek40 TIL that people who take the popular Meyers-Briggs personality test twice have a 50% chance of getting completely different results the second time