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The day after US Air Flight 1549 landed safely in the Hudson, so many people played the number 1549 in the lottery that some states shut their lotteries down out of fear that if the number hit, they would lose millions.
Lotteries have a "liability level", a limit to how much the lottery can give away. If the amount of money that the lottery would give away for a certain number hits that liability level, they can't sell that lottery number anymore.
The liability level was $5 million in the New York lottery and $8 million in Connecticut. Both of those states sold enough "1549" tickets that they had to stop selling them to stay under the limit.
(Sources: 1, 2)
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On Valentines' Day, I was at a flower shop.
A little boy walked up to the counter and asked to buy a red rose. Then the little boy opened his own little wallet and paid for it. I heard him say on the way out. 'Hurry before the graveyard closes, grandma waiting'.
His love to passed people gives me hope.
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A couple months ago, my little brother came home from his first day in kindergarten. When I asked him about his class, he said "there's a girl in my class, and she's so pretty!" The girl he was talking about is a bald 5 year old with leukemia. His unconditional love GMH.
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