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TIL the Padmanabhaswamy Temple, which contains over $22 Billion in gold and jewels and is estimated to contain over $1 Trillion behind a mysterious sealed door

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djEQ TIL During WWII, George de Hevesy used aqua regia to dissolve the Nobel Prizes of German physicists Max von Laue and James Franck to prevent them being confiscated. He left the solution in his lab, where it was ignored. After the war, he precipitated the gold out and the medals were recast.
ypY8 TIL about the oldest surgeon of Russia, 87 years old, who still holds more than a hundred operations a year, with zero fatality.
nJXb TIL the Persian calender is the most accurate calender in the world losing only 0.00000615th of a day every century
78ne7 TIL: Zimbabwe allocates senate seats to people with disabilities. An example is in the 2023 Zimbabwe election, 2 seats were given out of the 80
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