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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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KYJLa TIL Linkin Park initially wanted to be called Lincoln Park, but they changed the spelling so they could acquire the linkinpark.com domain
e0BRg TIL of Robert S. Abbott, who founded 'The Chicago Defender' in 1905 for just $7. With the top circulation of any Black-owned newspaper in the states it made him a multi-millionaire and contributed to The Great Migration. Thanking his ex-landlady for encouraging him, he gave her an 8 room house.
LQOJ9 TIL The Temple of Debod is an ancient Egyptian temple that was dismantled and rebuilt in the center of Madrid, Spain. It was moved due to the construction of the Aswan High Dam and the consequent threat posed by its reservoir.
9wpJM TIL Bunny chow does not refer to a bunny but is the name of a South African fast food dish consisting of a hollowed-out loaf of white bread (or sometimes brown bread) filled with curry and salad.
xJog TIL: Ernest Rutherford once said, “All science is either physics or stamp collecting.” He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908.