Two lives were forever changed the moment these numbers were called yesterday: 4, 8, 15, 25, 47 and 42.
The people holding them won the Mega Millions lottery and will split a whopping jackpot of $355 million.
The lucky winners, one from Idaho and the other from Washington (their identities have not been revealed yet), beat the odds of one in 176 million to get a piece of “one of the largest jackpots in US lottery history,” CNN reports.
They’ll have the choice of either taking half of the total sum at once or receiving annual payments over the next 26 years.
It’s hard to fathom what it would be like to win that much money and have to decide what to do with it.
MSNBC reports that in 2009 a man won $10,000 in the Michigan Lottery and gave it all to the Greater Kalamazoo United Way. If you won the lottery, what would you do with the cash?
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