# Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across (Part 2)

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In January, 1938, the village of Bonfield, Illinois, banned a variant of Rummy. Which forced the card sharps to go underground.

https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/7JiXaAX3UbYLRPaDasvuG4?utm_source=oembed

The researchers were unable to determine what happened to any of the involved parties, or the law, after those few days in January.

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