Episode 1117 • •
1117: Composting People
Sing Sing Prison Fingerprints, 1812 Haiti Foreign Aid Trivia
The program opens with historical trivia regarding Sing Sing Prison beginning the practice of fingerprinting prisoners on this day in 1903. A second trivia point notes that in 1812, the first U.S. foreign aid bill was authorized to provide relief for earthquake victims in Haiti and Venezuela.