Sometimes in life, you follow a sign that says “luckiest store in Michigan,” and instead of getting a clever marketing gimmick, you end up walking out with a ticket worth a million dollars. This is exactly what happened to one Michigan man who, in a moment of casual optimism, stepped into a liquor store and stepped out with a financial plot twist.

Imagine popping out on your lunch break to do something totally ordinary—grab a ticket, grab a snack, maybe complain about work in your head—and walking straight into a plot twist featuring your grandma and a million dollars.

That’s basically what happened in Rochelle, Illinois.

Most of us spend our whole lives trying to catch one big break. A New Jersey couple just caught two — and the universe apparently didn’t get the memo that this isn’t how probability works.

Six months after scoring a cool $1 million from a scratch-off ticket, this husband-and-wife team strolled back into the New Jersey Lottery office… this time holding a $3 million winner. Yes, you read that right. Yes, your brain is doing that little static glitch right now. No, the odds don’t make sense — in fact, statisticians estimate the chance of these two wins happening is roughly 1 in 2 trillion. You’re more likely to be hit by a meteorite. Actually, 1.2 million times more likely, according to the Lottery.

There are birthday gifts, and then there are birthday miracles.

Some people get socks. Some get a new tie. And then there’s a guy from Simsbury, Connecticut, who casually gave himself a $1 million Powerball win for his 60th birthday. Talk about setting the bar high for next year.

Every neighborhood has a “lucky spot.” A corner store that sells more scratchers than sandwiches, a clerk who swears by birthdays and anniversaries, a rumor that someone’s cousin’s barber once hit big. Most of the time, it’s folklore. Then a BP station in Yonkers went and made it real—three $1 million Powerball winners from the same drawing, same store, same night.

There are lottery wins that change lives — and then there are the ones that make history books do a double take.

Meet the Seven Bridges Revocable Trust from Fredericksburg, Texas — the newest members of the “We Won So Much Money We Need a Lawyer to Claim It” club. They just walked away with half of the $1.8 billion Powerball jackpot from September 6, the second largest in U.S. history.

When you win two billion dollars, you can do just about anything — buy islands, build spaceships, start a cult of golden Labradors. But what Edwin Castro is doing with his fortune? It’s something a little different. He’s trying to buy back the past.