Lottery Facts

You're more likely to die in a car accident driving to buy a lottery ticket than you are to win the Powerball jackpot.

Around 85% of lottery jackpot winners continue working after their big win, with many staying in the same job.

In the U.S., about 1% of lottery prizes go unclaimed each year - totaling over $2 billion in forgotten winnings!

In 2005, a fortune cookie company correctly foretold lottery numbers, resulting in 110 winners and an investigation.

In 1992, an Australian gambling syndicate purchased the majority of combinations in a Virginia lottery. They won, turning their $5m investment into $27m winnings.

Joan Ginther won the Texas lottery four times between 1993 and 2010, collecting $20.4 million. The odds of one person doing that by chance - roughly 1 in 18 septillion. Investigators later discovered she had a PhD in statistics from Stanford and had been studying scratch-off distribution patterns.