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The hit 2008 film starring Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher may have been a good watch but most of us laughed off the possibility of this ever happening. Well it seems the impossible has actually happened in France!  Straight out of the movie script, two warring friends are in a court battle over who should have over $3 million in winnings from a slot machine! In March this year Marie-Hélène Jarguel placed $70 equivalent into a slot machine in France. With her was her male friend Francis Sune who she considered her lucky charm and accompanied her often when she …

It seems to be a definite benefit for a lottery ticket buyer to live in the Yorkshire area of the UK. With the British lottery celebrating its 15th birthday it seemed the right time to have a party, and who better to attend than the big winners of the area of Leeds. A whopping 229 millionaires have been created in Yorkshire since the lottery began. If that was not impressive enough, then the fact that the total winnings that have been paid out in the area is 1,085,964,265 UK pounds!  The winners gathered and celebrated the Lottery birthday with a …