Today is said to be the day in 1858 that a colonial magistrate in India began using fingerprints for identification. But that's just one part of the history of how and why our prints are such a valuable bit of biometric information today. Plus: a guy in Jamaica showed up to collect a big lottery prize in a Darth Vader costume, because why not?
How Fingerprinting Works (How Stuff Works)
Jamaican Darth Vader claims $95 million lottery prize (Toronto Sun)
Cool Weird Awesome's Patreon backers have their fingerprints all over this show
