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TIL that the 1454 Gutenberg indulgence printed at least 190,000 forms promising forgiveness for sins including murder, theft, and secret crimes, with grisly warnings of souls burning in purgatory; buyers could present the forms to a confessor to be absolved and spared eternal torment.

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