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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