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TIL according to medieval legend the Codex Gigas was created by a monk sentenced to be walled up alive; but to escape death promised to create, in one night, a book with all human knowledge. Near midnight, the desperate monk gave Lucifer his soul to finish the book. Thus, a nickname "Devil's Bible".

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