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Pope John XXII issued a public decree banning alchemy while secretly hoarding a massive private alchemy lab
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Do as I say, not as I transmute. The 14th-century pontiff publicly excommunicated anyone practicing the dark art of turning base metals into gold, purely to crack down on counterfeiters. Meanwhile, he quietly funded his own alchemical research in the papal basements because the Vatican's coffers weren't going to fill themselves.
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