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TIL that the “founding father” and first president of Pakistan wanted the country to be a secular home for people of “any religion, or caste, or creed.”

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wddE TIL that the Grand Mosque in Paris, under Si Kaddour Benghabrit, saved hundreds of Jews during WW2 by granting them fake papers and allowing them to hide in the catacombs beneath the mosque.
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