# MegaMillions/Lost

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**Created:** [January 5, 2011, 5:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/megamillions-lost/256286 "2011-01-05T05:53:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 9:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/megamillions-lost/256286/14 "2011-01-05T09:27:59Z")

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> [@VW H8Rs Unite](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/vw-h8rs-unite/38475/42):
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> i donno if thats real , i just saw that 2 ppl won it on yahoo.
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> winning tickets were sold in Idaho and Washington state
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> Read more: [http://www.thirdage.com/news/mega-millions-winner-2-tickets-are-335-million-mega-millions-winners\_1-5-2011##ixzz1AB6ZLd2Y](http://www.thirdage.com/news/mega-millions-winner-2-tickets-are-335-million-mega-millions-winners_1-5-2011##ixzz1AB6ZLd2Y)
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> [http://www.thirdage.com/news/mega-millions-winner-2-tickets-are-335-million-mega-millions-winners\_1-5-2011#](http://www.thirdage.com/news/mega-millions-winner-2-tickets-are-335-million-mega-millions-winners_1-5-2011#)
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> so i think that other faggle on livejournal is full of shit

> [@FS: White Leather Reclining Chair](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-white-leather-reclining-chair/35363/13):
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> How do you guys not get this!?!!!? I’ve never even watched lost and understand this!
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> The numbers that came out in the mega millions are the SAME numbers that the character “Hurley” played and he won $114 million lottery. This numbers also apparently played a large part in the show and the ending.
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> The tweet if from one of the creators of the show explaining that nearly 10,000 played these numbers and all won a part of the jackpot.
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> Just a cool fact kids, and really not that hard to comprehend.

Um no.

Look again, not all the numbers match

That group of 9,000 people all got a secondary sum of winnings. There are more payouts than just the major jackpot.

The jackpot got divided between two winners, the rest got the appropriate sum for getting close, just an unusually high amount of people.

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