You've probably noticed that in recent years, lottery jackpots tend to swell to astronomical sizes, sometimes even topping the $1 billion mark. But why?
You've just won the $1.25 billion Mega Millions jackpot. (It's nice to dream, isn't it?) But can you really stay anonymous and keep strangers from finding out?
A Michigan woman who thought she'd won $1,000 on an instant scratch-off ticket found out she was wrong - and that she had actually won a cool half-million.