Usually when you buy lottery, you are aware that you need to check the numbers and you sort of pay attention to what you do with the actual ticket, right? Well as it seems not many people actually do that. US lottery

If you look at the news about lottery winners there is a considerable amount of lost tickets, tickets stashed in the garbage or inside your pants and actually people have the most amazing places to put their tickets. The only exception to this would be the instant scratcher tickets, for a reason or other these tickets tend to have a low rate of being stashed away only to learn afterwards that you might have hit the jackpot. There are many reasons for this; after all, classic lottery tickets like Powerball or Mega Millions are but a white ticket where you can simply put anywhere handy. On the other hand instant scratcher tickets are usually made of a different material, with very attractive colors and the most important part of all: you know it the moment you won something. So people end up guarding these winning tickets like their lives. This is not so for normal white tickets. Lottery results

So it wouldn’t be amazing that a Portland, Oregon, man who bought a Megabucks ticket back in July, put it on his refrigerator and then forgot all about it found out this week that he had actually won $21.8 million.

Leland Hanson bought the winning ticket at the 7-11store at 16155 N. Lombard. And it occurred that one day, three months later, he was getting ready to make a payment to a local veterinarian when he noticed some lottery tickets on his refrigerator and thought to himself, “I should check those — I could use a little extra money right now.”

Well, Hanson got more than just a little extra money when he found out that he had matched all six numbers in the July 30 Megabucks drawing. Hanson had selected the cash out option and received a one-time payment of $10.9 million, before state and federal taxes were withheld.