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Posted: 6:00 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012

15 Things More Likely to Happen Than You Winning Powerball! 

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Richard.Watkins@ajc.com
The Powerball jackpot climbed to the record level after Saturday night’s 16th consecutive drawing without a big winner.

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The drawing for the largest Powerball jackpot in history is set for tonight. But what are your actual chances of winning? The odds of an individual ticket winning are estimated to be as low as 1 in 175 million. Here are 15 things that are more likely to happen than winning the Powerball jackpot:

1. Picking a perfect NCAA bracket. Odds: 13,460,000 to 1
2. Birthing identical quadruplets. Odds: 13,000,000 to 1
3. Becoming an astronaut. Odds: 12,100,000 to 1
4. Becoming president. Odds: 10,000,000 to 1
5. Dying by a hornet sting. Odds: 6,100,000 to 1
6. Dying from being left-handed. Odds: 4,400,000 to 1dds: 6,100,000 to 1
7. Becoming a movie star. Odds: 1,505,000 to 1
8. Drowning in a bathtub. Odds: 840,000 to 1
9. Getting a royal flush in a first hand of poker. Odds: 649,740 to 1
10. Dating a supermodel. Odds: 88,000 to 1
11. Being murdered. Odds: 18,000 to 1
12. Dying in an asteroid apocalypse. Odds: 12,500 to 1
13. Finding a four leaf clover. Odds: 10,000 to 1
14. Losing an appendage to a chainsaw. Odds: 4,464 to 1
15. Writing a New York Times bestseller (if you're an author). Odds: 220 to 1

 
 
 

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