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  D A ILY INNOVATION BRIEF                By Journalists Edward Kane & Marya nne Kane BEST SIDE TO CHOOSE IN A COIN TOSS                                                                      Source:  Stock & Super Bowl Coin Toss We all thought that a coin toss offers a 50-50 chance of winning; turns out that's not the case, according to new science.  Here's what we know: Coin flipping dates back to the Roman Empire to decide a number of issues like who goes first Famously today every football game has a pre-game coin toss to decide who kicks off and which team receives Stanford University researchers flipped various coins from 46 countries over 350,000-times The results found that a coin is likely to land nearly 51% of the time on one side According to Stanford University mathematician Persi Diaconis: "The coin has a higher chance to land on the side it started." Evidently, the coin spends more time in the air with the initial side facing up So, if your coin fa