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

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N7RxN TIL that a fifth of people in Greenland have attempted suicide, which is four times the global prevalence.
ldpG TIL Osama Bin Laden was scammed out of $1.5 Million while trying to buy weapons-grade uranium
805L TIL two esteemed scientists suspected time traveling culprits to be sabotaging mankind’s discovery of the Higgs boson.
W7LjN TIL some insomniacs may have nights of "sleep misperception", where it feels like you were awake all night but you actually slept for hours.
wY71 TIL the “Monte Carlo fallacy” was named after an actual game of roulette played in Monte Carlo where the ball landed on black 26 times in a row. Millions of francs were lost by gamblers who believed red was “due” to come up.