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Question: Do twins have the same fingerprint? Are fingerprints from the same person different from each other?

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Even identical twins have different fingerprints. Fingerprints have been used in identification for thousands of years and even today, with huge databases with millions of fingerprints, it hasn't been found one that is identical to another. Besides, each finger and toe has a completely different fingerprint from each other.