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TIL (1940) Niels Bohr dissolved two 23-karat gold Nobel prize medals in three parts hydrochloric acid and one part nitric acid and hid it from the invading Nazis. In 1952 the medals were restruck and returned to their owners.

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9YLQ6 TIL that serial killer Paul Knowles was shot dead, while trying to escape from a police car. Apparently, he reached across the back seat, and tried to steal one of the officers' gun.
VMg4G TIL two weeks after JFK's Eternal Flame was lit, it was extinguished accidentally by a group of Catholic schoolkids trying to sprinkle holy water.
a8Wxy TIL The 1963 film "The Ugly American" had Thai politician and scholar Kukrit Pramoj play the leader of the fictional country of Sarkhan. In 1975 he became the 13th prime minister of Thailand.
1aVQV TIL that the popular Christmas song "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," played in films like Home Alone and having the vocals of an apparently adult woman, was actually sung by a 13-year-old girl.
m4eY TIL that according to Hindu mythology, the first avatar of Vishnu was a fish, the second a turtle, the third a boar, the fourth a half man-half lion and from fifth to ninth, human. The tenth avatar will come in the future and destroy the world.