Why we never win the lottery

by Angus Shaw · Published 03/04/2015 · Updated 03/04/2015

More chance of seeing Elvis in the local supermarket, more chance of getting shot dead in a random drive-by.

More chance of stumbling across an unpublished Ernest Hemingway manuscript, an undiscovered Picasso…

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