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

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GYgDj TIL : The movie “Moana” was changed to “Oceania” in Italy because there was a porn star named Moana already in Italy
D1xAg TIL that Frank Sinatra did not serve in the military during WWII, classified as F4 (Registrant not acceptable for military service) because the US Army considered him "not acceptable material from a psychiatric viewpoint".
1a0A8 TIL under the START treaty, Russians could inspect US missile sites. As a result, Sites such as at Tekoi Utah feature Russian-language signage.
BGPk TIL that when a squirrel feels that it is being watched, it may deceptively pretend to bury an object and then hide the object in its mouth.
gA94 TIL a German air traffic controller was upset at a British pilot and asked him rudely if he had never been to Frankfurt before. The British pilot replied “Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark…and I didn’t land.”