The Somerton Man

A well-dressed body on an Australian beach, no ID, a hidden scrap of paper reading 'Tamám Shud,' and an uncrackable code.

Why we kept this

The uncracked code in his pocket notebook still gets a fresh crack at it from amateur cryptographers every few years.

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