ATLANTA — Your dreams could come true tonight if you win the Mega Millions jackpot. It currently stands at an astounding $1 billion.
If you look at all the lottery billboards around the metro, none of them are built to show $1 billion. The highest they show is $999 million.
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Channel 2′s Dave Huddleston went to one in Alpharetta that some people consider a lucky store, especially since a Georgia person won $1 million Thursday night from a Powerball ticket sold there.
Huddleston spoke with a man who only identified himself as Jay who works at the store. He said he helped the lucky customer.
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“He was fantastic. He came yesterday morning he asked the results I handed over the results. He handed me the ticket and asked me to match 10 numbers. I matched it and I said, ‘Wow,’” Jay said.
The customer just missed the Powerball number but the store is apparently lucky. Two years ago, they had another million-dollar winner.
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The other thing to keep in mind with these massive jackpots, is the money that will go toward education across Georgia.
“Anytime a Georgian has the ability to purchase a ticket in Georgia, any lottery ticket, it gives back to the students of Georgia. So on these big sales days, these big exciting jackpots, we get very excited for our students because we know that we will be able to return even more to the state of Georgia,” said Gretchen Corbin, CEO of the Georgia Lottery.
In 2020, the Georgia Lottery generated $13.4 million in tax revenue for Georgia.
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The Mega Millions jackpot was last hit on Sept. 15, 2020. Adrian Tongson of Racine, Wisconsin, won the $120 million prize. Tongson chose the cash option of approximately $95.4 million and took home approximately $65.2 million after federal and state taxes.
On Wednesday, someone in Maryland won the $730 million Powerball jackpot.
The largest Powerball jackpot ever was in Jan. 13, 2016, in which three winning tickets were sold for a $1.586 billion jackpot; one in Tennessee, one in Florida and one in California.
The largest Mega Millions jackpot ever was in Oct. 2018, when an anonymous person in South Carolina won $1.537 billion.
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