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The night before the U.S. military captured #Venezuelan dictator Nicolás #Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, somebody, somewhere placed an extremely well-timed bet on the prediction markets site #Polymarket. On January 2, an anonymous user bet $32,000 that the Venezuelan leader would be out of power by January 31. At 4:21 a.m. the following morning, President Trump announced that Maduro was in custody — and the user chased out, making more than $400,000. While the bettor’s identity is still unkn