# Fake Fact No. 020

> Fake fact (not true): Fingerprints are the fingers' own signatures, and babies spend their first months practising them.

**Veracity: FALSE.** This fact is made up.

This is why babies grab everything they can reach: they are signing it. By the age of one the signature is settled, and no finger has ever been allowed to change it.

- The body (body)
- Filed under fingerprints, babies.
- Source (fabricated): Quarterly Review of Small Hands (https://onlyfakefacts.com/sources/quarterly-review-of-small-hands/)
- Sunday, November 8, 2026 (2026-11-08)
- https://onlyfakefacts.com/facts/fingerprints-practised-signatures/

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