Odds Are These INSANE Things Will Happen To You Before You Win The Mega Millions
You already know because you've heard me say in 100 times: Your odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot is 1 in 302,575,350. That means you have better odds to have one of these totally insane scenarios happen to you:
- Becoming the President of the United States: 1 in 32.6 million chance of being elected if you meet the qualifications (the path starts right here in Iowa!)
- Being a victim of a shark attack: 1 in 11.5 million
- Death by Vending Machine: 1 in 112 million
- Having a child prodigy: average IQ of a certified genius is 150 and 1 in 1,100 people have IQ levels that match that level or exceed it; Galileo and Leonardo Da Vinci are estimated to have IQs of at least 180 - those odds are 1 in 3.5 million
- Having identical quadruplets: 1 in 15 million
- Struck by lightning: 1 in 1 million chance
- Being dealt a royal flush in an opening hand in poker: 1 in 649,739
- Being diagnosed with the plague: 1 in 46.6 million unless you keep up your hygiene.
- Hitting a hole-in-one in a golf game: professional golfers - 1 in 3,000; average golfers - 1 in 12,000
- Becoming a professional basketball player: male high school athlete - 1 in 11,771; female high school athlete - 1 in 13,015
- Surviving a plane crash: 1 in 2.63
- Having a tax return audited: 1 in 123
- Death by falling coconut: 1 in 50.7 million
- Bowl a perfect 300 game: professional bowler - 1 in 460; average bowler - 1 in 11,500
- Death by mountain lion: 1 in 32 million
- Becoming a saint: 1 in 9.2 million
- Predicting correct outcomes of all Sweet 16 teams in March Madness: 1 in 1.9 million
- Death from being left-handed: 1 in 4.4 million
- Dating a supermodel: 1 in 880,000
- Drowning in your bathtub: 1 in 840,000
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