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Keno began as a way to fund Chinese wars
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Next time you mark off numbers on a paper slip, remember you are participating in ancient warfare funding. The origins of Keno date entirely back to ancient China, where desperate rulers invented the lottery game simply to extract extra funds from citizens to pay for massive military campaigns. It proved significantly more popular than regular taxes.
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