A family found a $4.85m lottery ticket in their cookie jar!
Ricardo Cerezo had been buying lottery tickets compulsively. After a month, his wife was annoyed and asked him to go get them checked for prizes, or she was going to throw them away.
He took the tickets which had been put in a cookie jar and went to a 7-Eleven to check them. Most weren't winners. However, the last one said 'file a claim,' which meant it was worth $600 or more. That's when he went online and realized that he had won $4.85 million and didn't even know about it.
The family was facing foreclosure on their home, but now thanks to this fortunate windfall, they'll be able to keep their home. Hopefully they put the money to good use.