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43: Six unopenable letterboxes

Lateral with Tom Scott

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The Ouija Board and the Berlin Wall

The 1891 game that named itself is the Ouija board. At a government agency's office building in Berlin, why are there six letter boxes that cannot be opened? The story goes that they asked the board itself what it was called, and it spelled out O-U-I-J-A.

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