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Danny Gutmann & Lewis Moynihan

Toppled Queen Victoria statue reveals '100-year-old angry-message in bottle'

A '100-year-old angry-message in a bottle' was unexpectedly found underneath a toppled Queen Victoria statue. The furious message inside the bottle blasted controversial drinking laws in 1921.

The statue of the Monarch had been knocked down and the head was thrown in the a river by protestors last year in Canada. The group were out rallying over indigenous children's grave in Manitoba, reports the Daily Star.

However, workers were then left stunned when they pulled out the bottle from the base of the statue as they dug up the ground underneath the fallen statue. The letter inside the bottle was dated July 30, 1921, and was reportedly left as an apology for being unable to place a bottle of brandy underneath the statue.

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