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24th Oct 2018

Someone in the US has won $1.6bn in the lottery

Rudi Kinsella

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That is just a stupid amount of money.

Someone in South Carolina has managed to win the largest jackpot in US history.

Mega Millions confirmed on Twitter that there was one winner for the massive $1.6bn.

https://twitter.com/MegaMillionsUS/status/1055020789215440896

South Carolina Education Lottery spokesperson Holli Armstrong told CBS News officials aren’t releasing the address yet of the outlet that sold the winner — or even the city or county. She cited “security procedures.”

That seems like a fairly good idea to us…

Mega Millions host John Crow spoke about how incredible this win is:

“A million dollars is life changing. But a billion dollars is extraordinary. So that excitement, that enthusiasm that is generating right now is what’s great about this jackpot.”

The jackpot numbers were: 28, 70, 5, 62, 65, with a Mega Ball of 5.

We’ll forgive you for taking down those numbers and using them in future.

We don’t even know what we’d do with over a billion euro. Just think of how many chicken fillet rolls you could get with that.

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