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TIL:In 1523, Charles V allowed the construction of a cathedral choir and main altar within the Mesquita, a famed mosque in Cordoba, Spain. Charles later regretfully declared, “You have built what you or others might have built anywhere, but you have destroyed something that was unique in the world.”

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