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TIL tongue prints are unique and have been proposed as a reliable biometric in identifying bodies.

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kORlB TIL: Psycho was the first movie to show a toilet flushing
epPkn TIL that Mary Lynn Rajskub — who played Chloe O’Brian on 24 — was originally only supposed to do four episodes of the show. “That stretched to six. And then they just kept hiring me.”
On8X TIL that apes have been shown using language to ask questions (even complicated questions!) of primate researchers for over 40 years, and the other post to the contrary is total BS.
e0Jok TIL: The Queen of England always carries one of her two hundred purses on outings, and the way she holds them has a very specific meaning. For example, if she’s at dinner and places it on the table, that means she wants to end the event in the next five minutes.
VBZr0 TIL about Unserdeutsch (“Our German”) — the world’s last surviving German colonial-era creole. It developed in German New Guinea as a mix of Standard German, English, and New Guinea Pidgin, and today only around 100 speakers remain in Australia and 10 in Papua New Guinea.