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TIL in 1989, 76-year-old Elmer Sherwin won a $4.6m jackpot on a Megabucks slot machine at the Mirage in Las Vegas. Then in 2005, at the age of 92, Sherwin won a second jackpot of $21.1m on another Megabucks machine (at the Cannery Casino), which made him the first person ever to win Megabucks twice.

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