Mega Millions facts
While investigating facts about Mega Millions Numbers and Mega Millions Jackpot Winning Ticket, I found out little known, but curios details like:
A man, who brutally murdered a Sunday school teacher, plead insanity and ended up only serving 8 1/2 of his 30 year sentence for manslaughter. He now makes millions by running a mega church in TN, and even has lead the state assembly in prayer.
how mega millions works?
Your chance of winning a Mega Millions lottery is like knowing a hedgehog will sneeze once and only once in the next six years and putting your money down on one particular second and only winning if the one sneeze happens exactly at that second.
What's mega millions worth?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what's mega millions jackpot. Here are 17 of the best facts about Mega Millions Payout and Mega Millions Past Winning Numbers I managed to collect.
what's mega millions up to?
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You are twice as likely to win the jackpot in the mega millions lottery than you are to win the $1million prize from McDonald's monopoly
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In 2011, 47000 Lost fans won a mega millions jackpot using Hurleys numbers
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About Atlantropa, a proposed mega-hydroelectric dam that would've (in theory) shrunken the Mediterranean, freeing up millions of sq. kilometres of new land to settle on while supplying power for most of mainland Europe.
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Seminal hardcore punk band MDC changed their name to Mega Death Corporation when anarcho-punk collective Crass refused to include the band on a compilation album because "they were bothered by the name Millions of Dead Cops".
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If you won the minimum $40 million Mega Millions Jack Pot with a ticket purchased in New York, your actual cash payout after taxes would only be approx. $16.6 million.
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In 1925 there was a project called "Plan Voisin" by renowned architect Le Corbusier to destroy the historical center of Paris and replace it with concrete mega towers that could host up to 3 million peoples.
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Powerball and Mega Millions' return on investment (8-11%) is ridiculous compared to European lottery games like Eurojackpot and Euromillions (21-27%)
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3 Mega Millions jackpot winners never bothered to claim $145 million in lottery winnings
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4 out of the 6 Hurley's 'LOST' Numbers came up in a 2011 Mega Millions Lottery giving all 41,763 who played them $150 each.
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A mega-tsunami is expected to threaten both Europe and North America with millions of casualties when the western slope of La Palma in the Canary Islands collapses.
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What is true about mega millions?
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Powerball and Mega Millions' average return on investment (8-11%) is rather low compared to European lottery games like Eurojackpot and Euromillions (21-27%) - source
In 1958 a Mega-Tsunami with height 30m was created when 90 million tons fall from several hundred meters into the narrow inlet of Lituya Bay, Alaska. - source
26,000 people used the winning lottery numbers from the show Lost (4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42) to actually win/draw the Mega Millions lottery with each getting $150. - source
