Amateur Treasure Hunters Discover Infamous Stolen Room Worth Over $500 Million

Pinning the Problem

There was concrete that had been poured over the hatch, which the team broke into with the backhoe, only to run into another significantly more daunting task. The hatch had a series of combination locks on it. Except, the locks didn’t have a tangible strategy for accessing the combinations. There was a weird series of pins and unfilled holes, which they assumed they would remove the pins from one hole to be placed into another, but the hatch was so old that the pins wouldn’t budge. The team hit a snag, but thanks to a supportive community, they were able to get the job done…

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The More You Know

  • Crayola is literally "oily chalk."
  • A team of six women programmed the first digital computer.
  • Donkeys and dolphins are sometimes used as guard animals.
  • Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".
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