Imponderables: Fingerprints
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Among the day's unanswerable questions -- why can't the Twins win on the road or when will the Minnesota Senate race end, for example -- we add one more this afternoon: Why do we have fingerprints?
Up until now, it's been theorized that fingerprints exist to create friction when we grab things.
Scientists today announced the theory is invalid, according to the BBC.
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