In Bikaner, India, the priest ties the marital knot by handcuffing the bride's hand to a cow's tail. When the cow says "moo" (or its Hindu equivalent) the marriage is concluded. Carlo Alessandro Guidi, Italian lyric poet and dramatist, translated the Book of Homilies, a 16th century English work, into Immaculate Latin. As the first copy rolled off the presses, he hastened to the Vatican to present it to Pope Clement XI. On the way, he glanced to the page and was so mortified to find that the word "sine", which means "without", was spelled "sin", that he went home and died of shock, victim of a typographical error. Believe It or Not!
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