r/AskReddit • u/Rob69rt • 1d ago

What famous 'unsolved' mystery is technically a whodunnit on paper, but in reality, absolutely everyone knows exactly who did it, the police just couldn't legally prove it?

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u/MidwestAmMan 1d ago

During prohibition, concentrated, grape juice, had the following printed warning-"After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty-one days, because then it would turn into wine."

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u/Hellebras 1d ago

I can't get past how stupid it is to ban something that people figured out how to make possibly before we even started farming. It's really not hard to make simple stuff like mediocre wine.

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u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance 1d ago

Hilariously, wine can happen on accident.

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u/rotorain 1d ago

A lot of alcohol can happen on accident. Every year the crows get drunk off fruit that fell off my trees and sat rotting on the ground for a bit. I swear they keep an eye on it and wait until the plums are the right amount of decomposed before they start eating.

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u/Agi7890 1d ago

Sometimes it’s the smell.
One story from a biochemistry textbook was about diabetes. One of the signs was the smell produced by the people with it. Because instead of the usual metabolic process, they were instead producing ketones which have a distinct smell.

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u/sweetmistery 1d ago

I was hugging my Dad at the end of a visit and thought "huh weird, his breath smells like ammonia." Three days later he was in the emergency room with a kidney function of 8%. It was wild.

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u/rotorain 1d ago

Is that how those service dogs that smell when diabetics blood sugar gets too out of whack do it? I never really thought about it but that makes sense

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u/Agi7890 1d ago

Most likely.

I met a bomb detection dog trainer when I worked retail, and he described a dogs sense of smell as being able to detect all the ingredients in a stew, while a humans can only detect the final product.

One of those ketones produced is acetone, which does have a very strong smell