Source: http://www.presstelegram.com/ci_14527353?source=rv

LONG BEACH - A Long Beach doughnut shop owner who sold a Mega Millions lottery ticket worth $133 million was himself rolling in dough Saturday.

Even though Kevin Thai only gets a half of 1 percent of the total, that still comes to $665,000.

"That's a really big one," he said this morning from his Country Donuts shop at 3200 E. Anaheim St. near Long Beach's Cambodia Town.

A Mega Millions ticket sold at his store that matched all six numbers is worth a whopping $133 million, but the purchaser hasn't surfaced yet.
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Source: http://www.lotterypost.com/news/209812

Yes, that's right, he ate the winning ticket

A passenger flying on a Ryanair flight Thursday from Krakow, Poland, to the U.K.'s East Midlands airport ate a winning lottery ticket worth 10,000 euros ($15,000) when he was told he could not claim the prize mid-flight.

The cabin crew advised the winner that he would have to redeem the winning ticket directly with the company that runs the lottery, as it was such a large sum.

The passenger proceeded to become so irate that he ate the winning ticket.
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Source: http://news.ph.msn.com/weird-news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3899834

A poverty-stricken 97-year-old man in Vietnam won up to 400,000 dollars in a lottery, a report said Tuesday, sparking a frenzy among relatives eager to get a piece of his new-found wealth.
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