Who needs those silly jokers anyway? Well, they might seem more than a little pointless now, but they originally had some purpose in the grand deck of things. Watch!
“The joker is an obscure and (according to some) useless addition to a deck of modern playing cards — but it was originally a powerful card.
“Discover the history of the joker card and the modern card deck in this episode of BrainStuff.
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