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Ironic TwistsMay 21, 2026

The Cursed Room Number

The Cursed Room Number Physicist Wolfgang Pauli was obsessed with the number 137. It governs a fundamental constant of physics. He told colleagues he would ask God about it. In December 1958, he was admitted to a Zurich hospital. His room number was 137. He never left.

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