10 Things More Likely To Happen To You Than Winning The Lottery

3. Becoming An Astronaut

Every kid on earth at some point wants to be an astronaut, yet only 1 in 13 million will actually make the dream a reality. Still €“ you guessed it €“ you€™re more likely to strap on a spacesuit and take to the skies in a rocket than you are to pick six winning Lottery numbers. If that's not a consolation for your chosen balls not dropping down the chute, what is? Of course, your likelihood of space flight drastically increases if you live in a country that actually has a space programme, so whoopee for Americans and Russians. Sadly for British folk, not only will your balls fail to drop in the next Lottery draw but you won€™t even get to blast off to the moon in a starship with Richard Branson any time soon. Hard luck.
 
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