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It is said that nothing can be said about when a person’s luck will shine. You must have heard many similar stories about this. Where a person’s destiny changes completely in a moment. He becomes a millionaire directly from a highway tycoon, but today that story has come to the fore among people. The place where the note was found changed the guy’s destiny and made him a millionaire overnight.
We are talking about Jerry Hicks, a resident of North Carolina, United States, whose 20 dollars changed his fortune to such an extent that today he is a millionaire. What really happened was that a man named Jerry Hicks was wandering around after parking his car and found a $20 bill lying there. If you see it in Indian currency, its value will be equal to 1681 rupees. Harry was very happy after receiving this money. To try his luck, he went to a store and asked for a lottery number.
Did luck change like that?
Although he didn’t get that number, he returned home with another lottery ticket. But after a few days he came to know that he had won 10 lakh dollars (around 8 crore 40 lakh). On October 25, the prize money was also given to Harry.
He had two options to take this money, either he could take it all at once or he could take it over 20 years, however, he thought it was better to take the money at once rather than wait 20 years. Since he received the money in a lump sum, he would have received only 6 lakh dollars (around 5 crore 4 lakh rupees). Now if he had taken the money for 20 years, he would have been paid Rs 8 crore and Rs 40 lakh.
What will you do with so much money?
However, after winning this lottery, he also had to pay taxes on this amount. After paying this tax, he was able to take only 4 lakh 29 thousand dollars (3 crore 60 lakh rupees) home. Hicks says he has also made a plan for how to use this money.
This 56-year-old carpenter said that we will go straight to the Golden Corral and eat whatever is there. After this I will give some money to my children. Now that I have so much money, I can plan for my retirement and now I want to live my life in peace.
