Presidential candidates play poker as a tiebreaker for elections in New Mexico - Get Fact'd with Darren Maule

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This segment of the show has Darren Maule share facts that one would less likely hear anywhere else. Always interesting!

Today's fact:

- The UEFA EURO championship was founded in 1960. 3 out of the first 5 countries that won don't exist anymore: the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and West Germany.

- If an election in New Mexico is tied, the two candidates play a single hand of poker as a tiebreaker.

- American inventor Elias Howe had a dream where he had been captured by a tribe of savage cannibals. Just as the cannibals were about to eat him he noticed they held spears with holes in them. He awoke with an idea for the sewing machine.
21 Jun 2021 2AM English South Africa Society & Culture · Daily News

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