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TIL about Miss Belvedere, a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere that Tulsa, Oklahoma buried in a vault beneath the lawn of the city courthouse as a time capsule to be opened in 2007. It contained among other things a lady's purse including bobby pins, tranquilizers, cigarettes, and an unpaid parking ticket.

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