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TIL Jimmy the Greek Snyder bet $10,000 at 17–1 odds on Harry Truman to defeat Thomas Dewey in the 1948 election, because Dewey had a mustache and “American women didn’t trust men with a mustache”. In today’s dollars, that bet netted him over $1.7 Million.

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