Mistakes can sometimes cost us a lot of time, effort, and money. But we're all human. We make mistakes and we learn from them. There are rare moments though, when mistakes can lead to something unexpectedly great.
Tanya Hammonds, of Newport, Kentucky, had asked her husband to buy her usual favorite scratch-off tickets, but he ended up buying the tickets right next to those instead. Whether it was by sheer luck or serendipity, those tickets turned out to be the winning lottery tickets, earning them $50,000.
At first, she couldn't believe it and thought that she was merely seeing things. However, it was later confirmed that the ticket indeed contained the winning numbers. So, she took a picture of the ticket and sent a screenshot to her mother. Quite a happy accident indeed.
Of course, $50,000 is already a sizable sum to receive, but hardly not the most surprising lottery win, as just last month, a newlywed couple won $1 million after the groom bought his bride lottery tickets as a gift to celebrate their first day of marriage.
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