Well, it wasn't my mortgage numbers, but I did win $100! I've never won more than 3 before this so it was a good day

 

who can top this?

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donors give over $45M to 9 universities

In the past 8 weeks, at least nine universities have received gifts totaling more than $45 million.

The gifts ranged from $8 million at Purdue to $1.5 million donated to the University of North Carolina at Asheville. The University of Iowa received $7 million; the University of Southern Mississippi, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the University of Maryland University College got $6 million each; the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs was given $5.5 million; and Penn State-Harrisburg received $3 million.

It's not clear whether the gifts came from an individual, an organization or a group of people with similar interests. In every case, the donor or donors dealt with the universities through lawyers or other middlemen. Some of the money came in cashier's checks, while other schools received checks from a law firm or another representative.

~ public sources

 

Any one want to donate to "The University of Me"?

 

I hit the Florida fantasy 5 for 38k about 10 years ago.

 

I never won any lottery

 

The wife and I went to the slots in August for our anniversary. Came out 250 ahead.
We went again a couple weeks ago. We were there for less than an hour and left 350 ahead. That was good, seein as on the way back I picked up my Caddy and had to pay 430 for the new wheel bearing.

 

I won $1000 in the second scratcher game in California, but my wife at the time took the money. I won a bottle of Jim Beam when I was 6 at the Officer's Club, but my Dad took the bottle.

Bob

 

Bill Griffiths of San Antonio won $4.1 million on June 13, 1998, Lotto jackpot. He was 27 at the time.

"After I double-checked my numbers on Sunday," he said at the time, "I walked into my shop on Monday at Zephyrhills Bottled Water Co. and told my boss I quit."

With $208,000 annual installments over 20 years, he made his hobby his full time labor of love: drag racing.

Griffiths planned to pursue the sport full time and not have to worry about expenses.

He will be 47 when the $208,000 payments stop in July 2018.






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Frane Selak, born in 1929, is a Croatian music teacher who suffered numerous escapes from accidents:

* In January, 1962, Selak was traveling via train from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik. However, the train had suddenly derailed and plunged into an icy river, killing 17 passengers. Selak managed to escape, and only suffered a broken arm and minor scrapes and bruises.

* The following year, while traveling from Zagreb to Rijeka when the door blew away from the cockpit, forcing him out of the plane. Although 19 others were killed, he suffered only minor injuries and had miraculously landed in a haystack.

* In 1966, he was riding on a bus that crashed and plunged into a river. Four others were killed, but Selak managed to escape unharmed.

* In 1970, he managed to escape before a faulty fuel pump engulfed his car into flames.

* In 1973, another of Selak's cars caught fire, forcing fire through the air vents. He suffered no injuries save the loss of most of his hair.

* In 1995, he was hit by a city bus, but once again suffered minor injuries.

* In 1996 he escaped when he drove off a cliff to escape an oncoming truck. He managed to land in a tree, and watched as his car exploded 300 feet below him.

In 2003, he won $1,000,000 dollars in the Croatian lottery!


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So THATS where all my luck went.