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		jankotek on Dec 26, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A family with no fingerprints Washing dishes and some types of work may also erase fingerprints. Friend had troubles to enter US as a tourist.

irrational on Dec 26, 2020 [–]

I’m a woodworker. Hand Sanding always wears away my fingerprints so that I have to manually type in the password on my phone instead of using Touch ID for about a week afterwards until they grow back.

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