What are some unknown facts about Brihadeeswarar Temple?

Brihadeeswarar Temple, also known as Brihadeshwara Temple or RajaRajeswara Temple, is one of the country's largest temples. The Brihadeeswarar temple, alongside Airavatesvara temple and Gangaikonda Cholapuram, is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the "Great Living Chola Temple." The temple possesses the world's biggest vimanam, and the Kumbam (the top structure) weights about 80 tonnes. At the entrance to the temple is a massive statue of Nandi (the sacred bull). The statue is made of a single piece of stone and measures around 20 tonnes. The Lingam within the temple stands at a height of 3.7 metres.

• No coupling specialists like concrete were utilized, the sanctuary was simply work by interlocking the stones, the entire sanctuary is developed with rock stones, such a designing wonder.
• The shading specialists utilized for the never-ending artworks inside the sanctuary was separated from nature like blossoms, rocks, tree trunk… the other way around.
• Just sanctuary on the planet which shadow doesn't show up on ground. It projects the shadow, yet the falling setting of the stones from the beginning top makes a fantasy that the shadow doesn't show up on ground.
• The current name of the sanctuary was given by the Marathas.
• Ever pondered about the storm cellar of the sanctuary, the whole structure had withstood ground-breaking seismic tremors before. The whole structure was based on a moving pontoon loaded up with waterway sand, so the whole structure could move somewhat toward any path, so it can't be influenced by quakes, Such a virtuoso were those Engineers.
• The Lingam inside the sanctorum weighs around 20 tons.
• 81 stances of Bharatanatiyam were cut external the sanctuary.
• This sanctuary filled in as a stronghold too during the standard of Marathas, it has a wide canal and groups can be fixed to the external dividers the opening cut out of the divider.
• Alter 1: On the 275th day of the 25th year of his reign(1010), Rajarajan introduced a brilliant finial to be planten on the highest point of vimana of the sanctuary