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TIL that it's unclear from where Nation of Islam founder Wallace Fard Muhammad originated. While the NOI holds that Fard was Arabic, some evidence indicates he was south Asian, and once went by Wallie Dodd Ford. Fard appeared in Detroit in 1930 and disappeared without a trace in 1934

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