Hayley teaches the history of a system near and dear to her heart: the lottery. You may only have a one in 14 million chance of picking the winning numbers, but you have a one in one chance of enjoying this episode- bu-dum-tss! Then, Kat and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle prove to everyone that fairies are real and men are stupid. Two country girls got more than they bargained for when they presented their parents with photographs of fairies.
Lottery Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhC5NmFouHU
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Lottery Sources
Statistics at UC Berkeley | Department of Statistics
Statistics at UC Berkeley | Department of Statistics
https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/kaplan.pdf
Lottery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery
It turns out money can kind of buy happiness after all
Piper
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/2
Lottery fraud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_fraud
Winning the Mega Millions jackpot sounds great, but this story is tragic
Riley
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2017/08/23/kentucky-lottery-winner-died-penniless/594716001/
Everything You Know About the Fate of Lottery Winners Is Probably Wrong
Martinez
https://time.com/5427275/lottery-winning-happiness-debunked/
Why You Can't Buy Lottery Tickets With a Credit Card
Lee
https://moneyinc.com/cant-buy-lottery-tickets-credit-card/
A look back at the PA Lottery scandal
https://youtu.be/OhC5NmFouHU
9 Smart Moves for Lottery Winners
Hanscom Federal Credit Union
https://go.hfcu.org/blog/lottery
Cottingley Fairies Sources:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/mar/31/cottingley-fairies-fake-photos-go-under-the-hammer
https://blog.newspapers.com/arthur-conan-doyle-and-the-cottingley-fairies/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophical_Society
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-55187973
http://hoaxes.org/photo_database/image/the_cottingley_fairies/
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