Suddenly becoming a millionaire for reasons no one expected 1
In 2016, to prove to her husband that lottery tickets were a waste of money, a woman named Glenda Blackwell bought a $10 Carolina Millions scratch-off ticket.
After becoming upset with her husband Buddy because he asked her to buy him a Powerball ticket, Blackwell, 57, from Leicester, North Carolina, decided to do something to prove to him that buying lottery tickets is okay.
There was a seven-year-old boy who watched a lot of toy videos on YouTube and decided to vlog about other toys.
Ryan’s YouTube channel has influenced the toy world the same way PewDiePie, a Swedish comedian and video game commentator, influenced video games.
After watching toy review channels on YouTube, Ryan asked his mother: `Why don’t you make a video on YouTube for other kids to watch?`.
In 1992, while searching for a lost hammer with a metal detector, a retired man found a huge Roman treasure trove containing 15,234 coins.
When farmer Peter Whatling lost his hammer, he asked for help from his friend Eric Lawes, who had received a metal detector as a retirement gift.
There is a woman named Ailin Graef, aka Anshe Chung, who became a virtual millionaire by selling virtual real estate on the online world Second Life.
While living in Los Gatos, California, Dahl was sitting with his friends in a Bonny Doon bar listening to them complain about their pets.
Dahl then bought the rocks for a penny each, and the price this man sold these `pets` for was also extremely cheap.
Although sales were low in February 1976, Dahl sold 1.5 million Pet Rocks at $4 each, which made him a millionaire.
In 1975, a man named Gary Dahl became a millionaire by selling smooth rocks from Mexico’s Rosarito beach for $4 each.
During the Great Depression, a banker convinced a small town of struggling families in Florida to buy Coca-Cola stock.
In the 20s and 30s, the farming town of Quincy was struggling to survive.
Munroe’s instincts paid off and stocks pulled the town through the worst of the Great Depression.
