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Manchester Odyssey

... that the oldest surviving codex of the Odyssey (pictured) dating to the 4th century CE went on tour with the cast and crew of Christopher Nolan's film adaptation as part of its marketing?
... that Jacob Hersant was the first person charged and convicted of performing a Nazi salute in public in Victoria, Australia?
... that workers digging a utility tunnel in New York City accidentally created geysers?
... that the development of the Washington, D.C., suburb of Reston was led in part by an alleged Soviet spy?
... that rather than finish a cybersecurity test, OpenAI's AI models broke out of their sandbox and hacked into HuggingFace in an attempt to steal the answers?
... that Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree was the first downloadable content nominated for The Game Award for Game of the Year?
... that land in Manhattan intended for the Sailors' Snug Harbor retirement home was instead used by apartment buildings and a university campus?
... that the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment demonstrated that GPS and Galileo signals can be received and used for navigation all the way to the Moon's surface?
... that in 2021, live yeast was retrieved from beer lost in a shipwreck 126 years before?