Italian Man Threw Away Lottery Ticket Worth 1 Million Euros

An Italian man accidentally threw away a lottery ticket that had won him 1 million euros. The man had been playing the same numbers for years. When the machine indicated that the ticket was not eligible for payment, he discarded it in a shop's trash bin.

Later at home, it was revealed that this very combination had won the jackpot of 1 million euros. By that time, the trash had already been collected. Experts retraced the route of the garbage collection, located the necessary container, and spent the entire night searching through the waste by hand.

In the morning, the ticket was found—among numerous other scraps, it was the only one that remained intact. This time, fortune smiled upon the man even in the landfill.