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Stephen Mills unwittingly solved a decades-old mystery when he visited Alberta’s Vermilion Heritage Museum. In the basement sat a 2,000-pound sealed safe, which had been donated in the 1990s. Everyone from professional locksmiths to the safe manufacturer had unsuccessfully tried to crack the combo. After a tour guide told him the tale, Mills jokingly spun the dial in a random combination: 20-40-60, three times right, two times left, one time right. To everyone’s surprise, the door creaked open. Sadly, there were no gold bars or precious jewels inside—just a few papers from the late 1970s. Solving the 40-year mystery, though, was priceless. |
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| unwittingly = without knowing or planning
locksmith = a person who makes and repairs locks combo = short for combination crack the combo = open the lock by finding the correct numbers |
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