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"textContent": "Gambling's family tree may have a new root, and it's in ancient North America. A new study in the journal American Antiquity argues that Native Americans in the present-day US Southwest were using dice and grappling with ideas of chance and probability roughly 12,000 years ago—about 6,000...",
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