You have a higher chance of being struck by a lightning than winning the lottery

Some excerpt about lottery facts from savingadvice.com:
…If none of the above has convinced you to stop playing the lottery, then I’ll bring out my favorite lottery fact. If you drive 10 miles to purchase your lottery ticket, it’s three to twenty times more likely for you to be killed in a car accident along the way than to win the jackpot.
Or this one:
..How about the classic odds of being struck by lightning? The actual probability of this happening varies from year to year, but as a good estimate, the National Safety Council says between 70 and 120 people a year die in the US by lightning - so let’s take 100 as our base. With the US population being approximately 265 million people, that means that the chances of being killed by lightning are roughly 2,650,000 to 1. Not very likely. However you are still 6 to 45 times more likely to die from a lightning strike than you would be to win the lottery.
So put on your sexy swimwear and take a long session at the pool because you don’t need lottery to be happy. (But you may be struck by lightning while you’re at it) he he he….
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