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How History's Most Popular Board Game Helped Defend The…

News – During WWII, the British secret service hatched a master plan to smuggle escape gear to captured Allied soldiers inside Germany. Their secret weapon? Monopoly boxes. The plan was simple enough: Sneak useful items into prison camps in an unassuming form. But the idea to use Monopoly came from a series of happy coincidences...

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This was the most interesting story I've read this month. Nice post!

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