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TIL that swearing on the Bible is forbidden by the Bible.

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yxra TIL: The Mr Bean theme song translated is “behold the man who is a bean”. Ecce homo qui est faba.
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N71mM TIL Newton kept an encrypted list of sins in his private diary which was partially decoded only in 1964
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