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Sherlock’s weirdest case study wasn’t about murder. It was about patterns.

Sherlock Holmes wrote a research paper titled “Upon the Distinction Between the Ashes of Various Tobaccos.”

140 varieties. Width. Color. Texture. The way different tobaccos left different residues depending on how they were smoked, stored, and extinguished. He cataloged all of it. In a leather notebook, probably. With handwriting that was almost certainl…