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TIL In 1989, a NY contractor decided to buy the contents of a storage container. He paid under $100 for what he would soon discover was the white Lotus Esprit submarine-car used in the James Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me. The car was bought at auction by Elon Musk for $1 million.

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