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490. What Do Broken-Hearted Knitters, Urinating Goalkeepers, and the C.I.A. Have in Common?

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Basketball

Liverpool football club believed there was a curse which could only be broken if somebody urinated on all four goal posts at the home field. In saka, your zero, zero outcome is very common and just winning by one goal is the most common way of winning. Luck can play an awfully large part in the outcome.

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