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52 Card Pickup

Wowie Wednesday....

There are more ways to arrange a regular deck of cards than atoms on our planet. Shuffle a deck of cards thoroughly and pile them up.

No one has, and no one likely will ever, hold the exact same arrangement of those 52 cards that you have in your hand right now.


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