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43: Six unopenable letterboxes
Lateral with Tom Scott
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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