Bizarre Mysteries That Remain Unsolved to This Day

Only the second Beale Cipher has been cracked. Strangely, the key was the Declaration of Independence, signed by none other than Thomas Jefferson, with whom Beale happened to share a name. The cracked cipher stated that the treasure was buried somewhere in Bedford County, Virginia, where people still search for it today.

Phaistos Disc

The Phaistos Disc sounds like it's straight out of an Indiana Jones movie. Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier discovered the clay-fired disc in 1908, which was inscribed with mysterious symbols which may be an unknown form of hieroglyphics. The artifact dates back to the second millennium B.C.

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The More You Know

  • The last movie ever rented at a corporate Blockbuster was "This Is The End" at a store in Hawaii.
  • There's a word for tapping someone on the opposite shoulder from behind to fool them.
  • Kids ask about 300 questions a day.
  • A Nepalese doctor has restored the sight of over 100,000 often poverty-stricken people in the last thirty years across Asia and Africa using a 5 minute procedure and an inexpensive artificial lens.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.