In 1914, Richard Platz, a 20-year-old son of a baker, was hiking when he threw a message in a bottle into the Baltic Sea. Little did he know that it would take over a century before anyone would read his message. Earlier this year, a fisherman named Konrad Fischer pulled the beer bottle out of the ocean.
The End of the World?
Believe it or not, some people think that the end of the world will happen on December 21st, 2012. Where does this belief come from? Well, its origin is the ancient Mayan calendar, which regards the 21st of December as the end date of a 5,125-year-long-cycle. That’s a fact. But what does it really mean? And what will really happen on that date? Well, that has been the subject of many different interpretations.