In the USA, a jacket with a lottery ticket for $2.5 million was accidentally donated to the fund.

Mildred Simoneriluto, a 76-year-old resident of Pennsylvania in the United States, donated a jacket to a charity fund with a winning lottery ticket worth $2.5 million in her pocket. This was reported on April 1 by ABC 17.

"Simoneriluto said that she bought the ticket last May at the Shop n' Save store in Marrysville, but after two weeks later she realized that she had the winning ticket, Simoneriluto could not find it because she gave the jacket," ABC clarifies.

It is reported that the lucky ticket contained the winning numbers. 14, 22, 33, 35, 38. It expires on May 8, 2025. The jacket he was wearing was donated to the Vietnam Veterans of America charity, which distributes donations to wards both in the United States and outside the country.

"I was stunned. There are no words for this, there is no expression. How can I get it back," Simoneriluto said.

In the summer of 2024, retired aircraft engineer Sergey S., a resident of Moscow, became a multi-millionaire by winning almost 170 million rubles in the 4 out of 20 Sportloto lottery. As previously reported, Russians won more than 600 million rubles in instant lotteries from January 1 to May 15, 2024, the press service of the National Lottery said at the end of May.