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455: No Such Thing As A Suspicious Duffel Bag

No Such Thing As A Fish

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The History of Darts

There's a conception that darts became a big game in this country when a man called Bigfoot was able to throw specific three double twenties, which he managed to do. In 1908, courts in Leeds were saying that darts is gambling because it's simply just throwing and it's a gamble on where it's completely random where it lands. The story is that they just told him what to hit and perhaps it was twenties and stuff like that. But then everyone else in the court would shout out a number and then he'd have to hit that. If you are not a skilled player and you aim for treble 20, you'll average 10.2 points per throw; if you throw totally randomly,

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