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A woman in southern Italy accidentally threw away her winning million euro lottery ticket after a machine said it was "non-payable." Local sanitation workers spent an entire day searching through a truckload of garbage to recover it.
After accidentally throwing away a winning lottery ticket worth €1 million, an Italian man got it back thanks to waste workers who searched through mountains of garbage for two days. The ticket was moments away from being compacted into landfill when the rescue mission began.
After a lottery terminal wrongly labeled a €1 million ticket "not payable," a frantic family watched as their winning ticket was hauled away with the garbage. In an all-night search through six tonnes of rubbish, waste collection workers in Italy found the intact ticket at 5:30 am.
When an Italian woman accidentally threw away her million-dollar lottery ticket, a team of sanitation workers spent a full day searching through a truckload of garbage to find it. Their determination turned what could have been a heartbreaking loss into an unforgettable win.
A Masterton man discovered his $5.08 million lottery win while still in bed, then ran screaming through his house in his underwear to wake his father. Three winners split New Zealand's $15 million jackpot, bringing life-changing fortune to families across the country.
When one lottery winner missed the deadline to claim their $111,111.11 prize, Belize Government Lotteries decided the money should still do good. The unclaimed jackpot will be donated to charity, even though the lottery didn't turn a profit last year.
When 433 people won the Philippine lottery with multiples of 9, the world cried foul. A Fields Medal winner used math to prove the stunning coincidence was actually legit.
A lottery winner in Belize missed the deadline to claim their $111,111.11 prize, but the money won't go to waste. Instead, the entire jackpot will be donated to charity this February.