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The Powerball jackpot rises to $ 550 million
Wednesday's estimated $ 550 million jackpot is the eighth largest in Powerball history. (If you're impatient and want all your millions at once, the sum of the cash value is $ 335 million.)
Your chance to win? 1 in 292.201.338. We know that these odds will not deter you. But only if you want a reality check, you are far more likely to …
… have quintuplets natural
If you expect a newborn, your odds are natural to have five children instead of one is 1 in 55,000,000. It's five times more likely than winning the jackpot. There are many babies.
… being murdered at the Grand Canyon
You have a 1[ads1] in 8,156,000 chance of being murdered at the Grand Canyon. It's actually 35 times more likely than hitting the jackpot. Then look at your back.
… have extra fingers or toes
The chances of having polydactyly – or extra fingers or toes – range from 1 to 500 to 1 in 1000. It's more than 292,200 times larger than winning the big prize.
… being killed by fireworks
You have a 1 in 340,733 chance of being killed by fireworks. So if you are using pyrotechnics to celebrate winning the lottery, please know that your chances of dying from fireworks are 857 times greater than hitting the jackpot you just won.
The Good News: Someone Must Win Finally
Scissors in Point: South Carolina Woman Who Won A Million Dollar Jackpot Of $ 1.5 Billion.
The winner, who chose to remain anonymous, said a simple act of goodness led to his massive storm last October. The woman let a media store at a convenience store jump in front of her in line before she bought a lotto ticket, using computer generated numbers.
Now she helps others again – this time with a much more powerful bank account.
"I realize that such happiness has enormous social responsibility, and it gives me a unique opportunity to assist, support and contribute to charities and causes that are close to my heart," the winner said in a statement through her lawyer.
Some of her donations go to the Alabama Red Cross to help them be destroyed by recent tornadoes who killed 23 people.
She also donates to Ronald McDonald's House of Charities in Columbia, South Carolina; In the middle, a charity that helps women with breast cancer; city of simpsonville art center; and One SC Fund for Hurricane Florence Relief.
