National Coin Flip Day [VIDEO]

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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.

    https://youtu.be/FvLjJE7Bt88

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