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Thukkachi Abatsahayesvar temple

... that the Thukkachi Abatsahayesvar temple (pictured) was greatly expanded by Vikrama Chola after he was supposedly cured of vitiligo by praying to the presiding deity for 48 days?
... that award-winning soprano Christiane Karg appeared as Sophie at the Frankfurt Opera, the Semperoper and La Scala, and in Mahler's Second Symphony at the Rheingau Musik Festival?
... that the Clinton Liberal Institute existed in upstate New York from 1831 until it burned down in 1900?
... that Frederick the Great felt sure he had lost the Third Silesian War after his defeat at the Battle of Kunersdorf in 1759, until a "miracle" restored his hopes?
... that Supreme Court of India judge Deepak Gupta once heard and disposed of 33 cases in a single day?
... that the iBuyPower and NetcodeGuides match fixing scandal is considered the first large scandal of its type to hit the competitive Counter-Strike: Global Offensive scene?
... that Gao Minglu, founder of the Chinese avant-garde movement, was a herdsman in Outer Mongolia during the Cultural Revolution?
... that Titian's Flaying of Marsyas (1570s) shows a satyr being skinned alive by Apollo, and was once the prize in a lottery?

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