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TIL that a man born blind became an infamous phone hacker by using his heightened hearing to listen to normally inaudible sound signals and imitate operators' voices with uncanny accuracy.

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ANDvx TIL about Will & William West, two felons who looked visually similar and even had similar anthropomorphic measurements. Officials needed fingerprints to “prove” they were different people. While mugshots still persist, most body measures have given way to fingerprints.
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nyGY TIL that the cat that featured in The Godfather purred so loudly that some of Marlon Brando’s dialogue had to be re-dubbed
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