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TIL of Adermatoglyphia: The Genetic Disorder Of People Born Without Fingerprints

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J9bk TIL that after Kanye interrupted Taylor Swift, Comedy Central replayed the episode “Fishsticks” four times consecutively.
4keRX TIL the first detective in the Chicago Police Department was Alan Pinkerton.
x9Zk TIL: It takes a 10-person team to unlock the 22-ton bank vault at Fort Knox - still the most impenetrable vault in the world. Roughly 3% of all the gold ever refined in human history is stored there.
nXNW TIL that 88% of doctors in 1961 withheld cancer diagnosis from patients
M7VNV TIL: That steam locomotives were invented before the bicycle. (1804 vs 1817)