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For centuries people have gambled on the outcome of events. This has included everyone from games of chance in Ancient China to the early episodes of the Olympic Games in Ancient Greece. The United Kingdom is widely regarded as the birthplace of legalised sports betting when moving the practice of gambling from underground to licenced, legal and regulated betting offices. In the 1960s, sports fans in the UK were, for the first time, able to legally gamble on the outcome of horse races, boxing bouts, soccer matches and more. These wagers were placed at high street betting offices or racetracks,
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The elderly couple seen hugging on the bed in Titanic (1997) while water floods their room were the owners of Macy’s department store, Rosalie Ida Straus and Isidor Straus. Ida refused a seat on a lifeboat, stating “Where you go, I go” which inspired Rose’s line in the film. Isidor was offered a place on […]
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In 2000, fundamentalist Mormon leader Warren Jeffs ordered his followers to pull their children out of public schools, leading one school district to drop from 1,200 students, to less than 250.
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There were ticket scalpers for gladiator fights in Ancient Rome. Gladiators like Hermes were known to draw the largest crowds and brought in high profits for scalpers due to demand.
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The night before Iraq invaded Kuwait there was a soar in pizza orders made by the CIA.
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The term ‘patient 0’ is based on a misunderstanding. An early HIV patients was named ‘patient O’, standing for ‘patient OUT of California’. People misinterpreted this letter as the numeral 0, leading to its wide usage today.
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Leonardo da Vinci designed a robotic knight operated by cables. When modern engineers built a replica based on the designs, it was functional.
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