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TIL that Canada has bestowed honorary citizenship on only five individuals, with Malala Yousafzai soon to be sixth. The others are Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Aung San Suu Kyi, Karim Aga Khan IV (a Shia Imam), and Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who rescued thousands during the Holocaust.

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