BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW ...
• One of the wisest gambler was Foghorn Leghorn. Mr. Leghorn,
despite the disadvantage of being a cartoon chicken, made one
of the most profound observations of the modern age.
He once noted the following:
“You can argue with me, boy, but you can’t argue with math.”
• Las Vegas set a new record in 2015 with 42,312,216 visitors.
It also hosted 21,306 conventions and trade shows that year.
• Dr. Edward Thorp worked with Claude Shannon in the late
1950s and early 1960s on the world’s first pocket-sized computer.
It was built to forecast the resting place of the ball in roulette.
Their system gave them an expected profit of 44% per spin.
• By 1942, each week more than 4,000 soldiers were graduating from
the Las Vegas Gunnery School, later known as Nellis Air Force Base.
The government spent over $25 million building and operating the facility.
• In the 19th century, faro became the No. 1 banking game of chance in the U.S.
• It wasn’t until around 1919 that special green-felted gambling tables were designed.
• All slot machines play the same music; they are all tuned in to the musical key of
“C” so that when slot machines are near each other they won’t clash in their music.
• The reason dice have dots (pips) on them instead of numbers is because dice were
invented long before most people could read numbers.
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