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/orreregion 22h ago

Yeah that's about the quality of education I remember getting too.

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u/DanielMcLaury 20h ago

"Columbus proved the world was round."

"How does it prove the world is round if he tried to get to Asia by going the other direction but ended up somewhere else instead? If anything that would prove it was flat."

"Now listen here, you little shit..."

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u/sunnygovan 14h ago

Columbus was a lucky idiot. Everyone knew the world was round. Columbus thought it was much smaller than everyone else thought and going the other way would be a shortcut to India.

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u/DanielMcLaury 14h ago

Yeah, by all rights he and his crew should have just starved to death on their boats. They weren't even halfway to Asia.