Norway's 100-Year-Old Mystery Package Opened

Rodman23 · Aug 24, 2012

The opening was streamed live earlier...Kinda boring, but still pretty interesting.

Well, as anticipated, the 100-year-old mystery package opened today in Norway didn’t hold the Blue Star diamond that was lost when the Titanic sunk in 1912. Neither did it contain the big knife or pea suggested as possibilities by Norwegian schoolchildren. What it did contain, however, is a trove of curiae, a slice of history and a healthy dose of delightful anticipation.

In front of a crowd that included Princess Astrid of Norway, the mayor of Norway’s Sel municipality (wearing a dashing necklace, I might add) cut the ropes on the package, which was supposedly sealed in 1912 and delivered to the town of Otta’s mayor in the mid-to-late 1920s. Curators from the Gudbrandsdal museum then took the reins, unwrapping the brown paper package to see what was inside.
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Inside the package? Surprise! Another package! Inside that, much to my dismay, was not an increasingly small series of packages leading to a pea. Instead, the interior package contained a number of fabrics in the color of Norway’s flag – “from the King,” said one of the package openers. Under the fabric the curators found notebooks, newspapers, a letter, a small drawing, some community council papers and other bits of paper.
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisbarth/2012/08/24/norways-100-year-old-mystery-package-opened-guess-what-was-inside/

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Classic · Aug 24, 2012

Congrats to Norway on 100 years of anticipation.

Thefabman · Aug 24, 2012

Package sealed in 1912...watched for 5 minutes live, pulled out newspapers from 1914 and 1919...everybody getting trolled.

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