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Interesting Fact - Gambling

There is no chance of winning the top prize on a £2 scratch-card on sale in the UK.

(Why can't you win?  Well because all the top £100,000 prizes have already been won. So you would think that they would be removed from sale, but according to Camelot, who run the lottery in the UK, the Gambling Commission says that retailers can continue to sell the stock they have activated for sale.

About 12 million of the cards were printed with the odds of scooping the jackpot standing at almost 2.5 million-to-one, and now those odds are a big fat 0.)

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