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Is there a pool in your work place on who will win the presidential election? (According to the Fifth Amendment, you may feel free to treat this question as rhetorical.)

Well, if so, your work place isn't the only one. It would appear that the Supreme Court has one as well. Recall that The Washington Post reported that Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor became upset and shouted "This is terrible!" at an Election Night party in 2000 when CBS called Florida for then-Vice President Gore. Democrats have presumed her outburst stemmed from her support for George W. Bush. But this paper suggests that she actually might have been upset about losing a dollar.

I wonder how many other historical events have been misinterpreted because historians didn't know there was an office pool at stake.

Wait. No, I don't.