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 Curiosity's.

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 beans 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 absurd comedic exercise, there's something

beautiful about the sentiment.

Two people searching their whole lives for that perfect soulmate to make them whole again.

Perhaps Martin, Van Buren, Bates and his wife Anna Haining-Swan were two halves of a

whole.

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