The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/house_of_ghosts on 2024-12-04 18:53:12.

Original Title: TIL Sir Paul Nurse, English geneticist and Nobel Prize winner, had his application for a US green card rejected due to the short-form UK birth certificate which he submitted not naming his parents. When he applied for a full birth certificate he discovered that his sister was actually his mother.