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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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M7Zj0 TIL about Janusz Korczak, an educator who refused offers of sanctuary in 1943 and chose to accompany nearly 200 children from his orphanage when they were deported to a death camp. He was never heard from again.
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