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sometimes i like to go down wikipedia rabbitholes. this is one of the more interesting i've read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamam_Shud_case

The Tamám Shud case, also known as the Mystery of the Somerton Man, is an unsolved case of an unidentified man found dead at 6:30 am, 1 December 1948, on the Somerton Park beach, just south of Adelaide, South Australia. The case is named after the Persian phrase tamám shud, meaning "ended" or "finished," which was printed on a scrap of paper found months later in the fob pocket of the man's trousers. The scrap had been torn from the final page of a copy of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, authored by 12th-century poet, Omar Khayyám. Tamám was misspelt as Tamán in many early reports, and this error has often been repeated, leading to confusion about the name in the media.
 

I’ve suffered many a sleepless night ruminating about this particular mystery. At this point, I feel no closer to solving it.
 






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