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Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosities.

The Greek playwright Aristophanes had been drinking with philosopher Plato at a banquet

when he delivered a speech. Originally meant to be a kind of satire on the creation myths of the time,

Aristophanes proposed that there was a reason for love's existence in the world. He told Plato

and the gathering crowd that men and women had originally started out as one being, two heads,

four arms and four legs, performing cartwheels to get from place to place.

And these beings were fast and strong, too strong for the gods, in fact, who didn't want

to be usurped as the most powerful entities in the universe.

To remind them of their place, Zeus cleaved each pair in half.

Since then, humans have walked this earth longing for

their missing halves and are drawn together by love. While he may have meant the story to be an

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