Fact

Shuffle a deck properly and you have almost certainly made history

That exact order has, in all likelihood, never existed before in the history of the world.

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The number of orderings of 52 cards is 52 factorial – about 8 followed by 67 digits. Even accounting for every shuffle by every person who has ever lived, the fraction of possible orders explored is effectively zero. Each fair shuffle produces a sequence that is, statistically, brand new.

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