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ON Dec 1, 1948, police found the body of a well-dressed man on Somerton Park beach in Adelaide, Australia, who had all the tags on his clothes removed and a scrap of paper in his pocket with the Persian phrase tamám shud (meaning finished) printed on it. His death was ruled to be from heart failure caused by poisoning.
So, for over 70 years, the man's identity was a mystery which spawned wild theories internationally of who he really was, from murdered spy to alien abductee.
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