I found a couple of links to playing cards history and trivias.

Not exactly magic but it would make for great patter material I think.
Now you can tell the story about why the 9 of Diamonds is known as the Curse of Scotland.

Here they are:

http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/playing-cards/

and

http://www.wopc.co.uk/

Thanks, Aloy. Good information for cardicians everywhere.

Thumbs up.

i love to read them. ;)
thanks

:D I foresee using some of that information as patter in the future. Thanks.