Science is an amazing thing.
A few more interesting facts as long as I'm still suffering from insomnia:
David Berglas and Marc Paul are the only two people on the planet who know the method to Berglas's Any Card at Any Number effect. That is also the exact same number of people who know:
-The location of Oliver Cromwell's head.
-The formula for Coca-Cola.
-The indigenous Mezoamerican language of Ayapaneco and the Northern European language of Ter Sami.
If you're into mysteries in general, the world provides plenty of those. For example, the Voynich manuscript is a 234 book written in a script that to this defies translation. The best anyone can figure is that it was written in Europe sometime in the first half of the 15th century. A letter attached to it is dated 1666. There is definitely enough structure to the writing to show that it does mean something. But I'll be damned if anyone knows what that is.
Similarly, consider the
rongorongo of Rapanui (modern-day Easter Island). Carved on wood, it appears to be some sort of proto-writing that to this day defies any attempts at deciphering or translation. Very few pieces of it survived to the modern day, meaning the likelihood of ever finding the proverbial Rosetta Stone for this text is almost certainly zero.
How about the Yonaguni Monument off the coast of Japan? It's still hotly debated whether it's a sunken architectural structure or a natural formation. It's hard to investigate since the damn thing's at the bottom of the sea. All I can say is that finding it must have been interesting. When my brother was at an archeological dig in Belize, he got freaked out when he and his partner discovered a remarkably well-preserved dagger that almost literally fell into their laps, saying that if he heard voices whispered on the wind that night in a language he didn't understand, he was going to run like hell back to civilization. Now imagine being underwater and finding what looks like a giant sunken city. Yeah. I'll bet the water got curiously warmer around the diver at that moment.