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Would You Bet On This Hand???

August 10th 2008 16:20
poker
During 1858, a man named Robert Fallon who was out playing poker was shot dead by other members of the table who believed his current winnings of $600 had been attained by cheating.

Because none of the other players considered the $600 pot to be lucky, Fallon's seat remained empty. However they were able to fill it at the eleventh hour with a new player and the game played on.
The police eventually arrived to investigate the matter, by which point the new player had nurtured the $600 into a grand total of $2,200.

After hearing the story of what had happened that night, the police determined that the original $600 be turned over to them so that it could be passed onto Fallon's nearest living relative.

The irony of this story, it eventuated that the new player who had taken Fallon's place was actually Fallon's son!

Having not seen his father in over 7 years, the son was none the wiser until the matter was investigated!
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A Coincidental Life!

July 24th 2007 00:45
We’ve all heard amazing stories of coincidence involving identical twins separated at birth, but some, like this example, really do make you wonder.

twins
Two twin boys were born in Ohio, adopted by different families and completely unknown to each other, were both named James.

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A young and upcoming actor at the time, James Dean while driving his Porsche Spyder was killed in a fatal car accident on September 30th, 1955. A strange string of coincidences have surrounded the car ever since.

After buying the car Dean had introduced himself to Alec Guinness and asked him to take a look at the Spyder. Guinness thought the car appeared "sinister" and told Dean: "If you get in that car you will be found dead in it by this time next week." This conversation reportedly occurred on September 23, 1955.
Porsche 550 Spyder

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AMAZING Word Scrambles!!!

March 3rd 2007 02:20
scrambled letters
I was sent this one by email the other day and thought it was good enough to post and share!

You all know how word scrambles work - you take a word, re-arrange the letters to come up with another word.

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