00:00The day the Eiffel Tower was almost sold.
00:04The Eiffel Tower was almost stolen and sold for scrap.
00:09In 1925, a con artist named Victor Lustig pretended to be a government official.
00:17He convinced scrap metal dealers that the Eiffel Tower was too expensive to maintain and was secretly for sale.
00:23One buyer paid him a huge amount and Lustig disappeared before anyone knew it was a scam.
00:32The most brilliant scam in history was selling something that wasn't even up for sale.
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