“I don’t understand why people who play the lottery aren’t more afraid of lightning,” joked comedian Kyle Kinane in his special Trampoline In A Ditch. “If you believe in those odds, shouldn’t you be like, ‘I got 20 bucks on the pick five. Wait, is that a storm?!'" Kinane went on, capping the bit with a two-word expletive meant to suggest sudden fear.

When the Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots skyrocket, many Americans begin to ponder their odds.

After all, someone has to win the money, right?

Well, not so fast.

While the odds are obviously long, how often do players realize how seemingly impossible they truly are?

Well, to amend Kinane’s joke from earlier, if you like your good fortune for winning the lottery, then your fear of equally unlikely misfortune by way of "freak" acci

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