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How the same fortune cookie paid off big-time for 110 total strangers

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Living (and loving) Life

Have you have ever dined at a Chinese restaurant?

If so, you probably received a fortune cookie with a set of lottery numbers printed on the little slip of paper that had the “fortune” on it.

Lots of folks actually purchase lottery tickets with the numbers from their fortune cookies, but only rarely does it ever pay off.

After all, those fortune cookie lottery numbers are simply made up out of thin air.

In other words, playing the numbers from a fortune cookie is essentially no better or worse than having the lottery machine pick your numbers at random on your behalf.

But one day back in 2005 (March 30, to be exact), 110 lucky folks won big by playing the same set of “fortune cookie lottery numbers”.

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You’re 11 times more likely to get struck by lightning than win the lottery, but…

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Living (and loving) Life

Do you play the lottery on a regular basis? If so, you probably know your odds of actually winning the jackpot are extremely poor.

In fact, your odds of getting struck by lightning in a given year  (1 in 1,222,000) are actually 11 times greater than your odds of picking the winning numbers for a lottery drawing (1 in 13,983,816)!

Pretty shocking, right? (Please pardon the terrible pun!)

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Four expensive things you can buy online if you ever win the lottery

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As you probably know, online shopping has forever changed the world of retail.

Nowadays there’s no limit to the kinds of things you can buy online if you’re the type of person that would rather shop from the convenience of your own home instead of a busy mall or big box store.

Most of us shop on the Internet for relatively low-priced items, but truth be told, you can actually buy things online that will set you back a literal fortune.

Just for fun, I’ve put together a few suggestions just in case you ever “luck up” and win the lottery: [Read more…]