Today we are celebrating all the significant (and dumb) moments in history decided by a coin toss. Heads or Tails? It’s your call. Enjoy Jo Dee Messina’s video “Heads Carolina, Tails California!”
- COIN TOSS FUN FACTS:
- Singer Ritchie Valens died after a fateful coin toss. He got the last seat on a plane that would later crash.
- In 1903, a coin toss decided which one of the Wright brothers would be the first human ever to fly. Wilbur won; Orville watched.
- The term ‘heads or tails’ was ‘coined’ (pun intended) in 1684.
- The coin toss was introduced in football in 1892 as a way to decide which team gets first possession.
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