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TIL when Richard Hopper went to buy a lottery ticket, the clerk told him they had accidentally printed a ticket for a previous customer who didn't want it and asked him if he wanted to buy that ticket or a new one. He bought the already printed ticket and won $1 million from the Michigan Lottery.

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