The money for the Statue of Liberty came from fundraising from auctions, a lottery, and boxing matches in Europe and the U.S. The Statue cost the French about $250,000, which today would be over 5.5 million dollars.
100 Mind-Blowing Lottery Facts
After a waitress at a pizzeria helped a customer choose the numbers for a winning lottery ticket in 1984, he “tipped” her $3,000,000 – half of his $6,000,000 prize money.
You’re more likely to become President than you are to win the lottery. The odds of a person becoming the President of the United States are 10 million to 1. However, the odds of hitting the Powerball jackpot are 292,201,338 to 1.
The winning lottery combination was once foretold in a fortune cookie. This resulted in over a hundred winners for the 2005 lottery. All of these winners took home around $100,000-$500,000 depending on their original bet.
If you look strictly at statistics, you’re more likely to win an Olympic Medal than the lottery. According to statistics, your chances of winning an Olympic gold medal are about 1 in 3.5 million. However, the chances of you winning the lottery is 1 in 14 million.
A fortune cookie once predicted the lottery, and 110 people won. In 2005, a shocking 110 people won second place in a Powerball drawing, with each one describing a fortune cookie for their lucky digits. Usually, only 4 or 5 people win second place. However, upon investigation, no foul play was involved.
The chance of you dying on the way to get lottery tickets is greater than your chance of winning.
The neighbours of lottery winners are more likely to go bankrupt because they try to keep up with their neighbour’s new spending habits.
In 2005, a fortune cookie company called Wonton Food Inc. correctly foretold lottery numbers, resulting in 110 winners and an investigation. No fraud was involved.