TIL that Mark Twain used fingerprints in his fiction decades before real police adopted them - joking about them in Life on the "Mississippi" (1883) and using them to solve a murder in "Pudd’nhead Wilson" (1894). Scotland Yard didn’t adopt fingerprinting until 1901 and the FBI later still.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain
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Posted Dec 1, 2025, 3:16 AM UTC

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