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TIL of Francisca Rojas, the first criminal to be caught using fingerprints as evidence

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0wBWN TIL "Scientists estimate that there are at least six billion planets that are similar to our Earth, present within our Milky Way galaxy alone. Some estimate that there are more than 10 billion."
VbgQ TIL that rubber, despite its many uses now, was called “rubber” because it rubs out pencil marks.
LYe9 TIL That at the outbreak of the 1973 Yom Kippor War, Israeli forces of just 3,000 troops, 180 tanks and 60 artillery were able to halt the advance of a Syrian force of 28,000 troops, 800 tanks and 600 artillery until reservists were mobilised
91lM TIL there is a Syrian city where Aramaic, the language of Jesus, is still widely spoken