NATION : Florida Lottery Hits $100 Million
Lottery players snapped up tickets at a rate of 300 per second in hopes of hitting the second-biggest jackpot in U.S. history, set today at $100 million.
By 11 a.m. today, the Florida Lottery had sold five times as many tickets as its previous record week, Paul said.
A Tampa father and son went to lottery headquarters in Tallahassee and bought 10,000 tickets. “I saved up for it. I figured it would be a good use,” said Anthony Giardino, 21, who bought 2,000 tickets. His father bought 8,000. It took nearly seven hours to print them all.
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