Bizarre Mysteries That Remain Unsolved to This Day

William Shakespeare

While you've certainly heard of William Shakespeare, it might be surprising to find that he may not have existed. Scholars have yet to figure out how a glover's son from the countryside managed to enter the literary world. Theorists suppose that he may have been a ghostwriter, Francis Bacon, or Christopher Marlowe, an essayist and a playwright from the same era.

Jack the Ripper

Between August and November of 1888, at least five prostitutes were mutilated and violently murdered in London. These crimes introduced the mystery of Jack the Ripper, who sent an anonymous letter to a London news agency confessing to the murders. Although it has been over a century, the identity of the killer is still under wraps.

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The More You Know

  • In 1993, San Francisco held a referendum over whether a police officer called Bob Geary was allowed to patrol while carrying a ventriloquist’s dummy called Brendan O’Smarty. He was.
  • It costs the U.S. Mint almost twice as much to mint each penny and nickel as the coins are actually worth. Taxpayers lost over $100 million in 2013 just through the coins being made.
  • The brain is the fattest organ.
  • The television was invented only two years after the invention of sliced bread.
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