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Back in 2003, a British tennis fan named Nick Newlife bet £1,520 (that’s pounds, by the way) at 66-1 odds that then 21-year-old Roger Federer, who had just won his first Wimbledon title, would win at least seven of them by the year 2019. Unfortunately, Newlife died in 2009 at the age of 69, but he left the betting slip to a charity that is devoted to responding to famine and eliminating poverty. As you know, Federer beat Andy Murray Sunday to win his seventh Wimbledon title. Then, the charity cashed in the betting slip and received £101,840. If you were curious, that’s $157,749.85 in American dollars.
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