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TIL our fingerprints are developed while we’re still in the womb and are unique based on our movement, location in the womb and composition of our mother’s amniotic fluid

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0e4y TIL During Prohibition, bootlegger William S. McCoy became famous for never watering down his beer or booze as opposed to many who did so to stretch profits. As a result, people starting calling his products, “the real McCoy.”
Br7Qx TIL David Bowie's eyes weren't of different colours. He suffered from anisocoria, which means that the iris can’t react to light in the same way as its fellow, so the area appears to be darker. So, what appeared to be different coloured eyes, was just that one pupil was bigger than the other.
4Ek5 TIL that a popular Japanese guitarist was so well-loved that 50,000 people turned out for his funeral, 3 committed copycat suicide in the week following his death, and that a museum about him was open for five years
rRgKx TIL that in 1999, an improperly set up hot tub at a garden show in Bovenkarspel, The Netherlands, caused an outbreak of 206 cases of Legionnaire’s disease and 32 confirmed deaths
jNpRn TIL there are ice caps, crusts is water ice, and water crystals that can be found in many places in our own solar system on planets, moons, comets and in the rings of giant planets like Saturn.