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2. Nova Scotian Peter McCathie may just be the luckiest man on Earth. McCathie and his co-worker Diane Miller recently won $1 million on an Atlantic Lottery ticket, the odds of which are 1 in 13,983,816, Time.com reports.
Incredibly, McCathie’s long-shot lotto win isn’t the only time he and his family have beaten the odds. When McCathie was 14, he was struck by lightning during a boat trip, reports CTV Atlantic.
“It was a very sunny day, there was one big, white cloud in the sky and the lightning bolt came through the trees and hit me,” McCathie told CTV. Even more incredibly, McCathie’s daughter also survived a lightning strike while working as an outdoor guide in Manitoba.
“It’s almost not possible” for these three events to occur in the same family, mathematician Sophie Leger told ABC News. Leger, who teaches at the University of Moncton in New Brunswick, calculated the odds at an astounding 1 in 2.6 trillion.
McCathie, who owns the store where the winning ticket was purchased, has been buying a ticket with his employee, Miller, every week for about a year, according to the Amherst News. “Maybe I won’t ask him for a raise this year,” joked Miller, who is planning trip to Cancun with her winnings.
McCathie, who earns an additional $10,000 as the owner of the store, told the paper he’s planning on taking a few more days off a year to fish and considering taking his wife to Ecuador for their 30th anniversary next year. He’ll have to keep his wits about him though; certain areas of northwestern South America have large amounts of lightning strikes every year.
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