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You know what they say when the odds of something happening are really low? “It’s like winning a lottery.” Well, what would you say if I told you that one man, over the course of 30 years, actually did win the lottery 14 times in a row? Sounds improbable, but this is the real story of a mathematical genius, Stefan Mandel. It all began in the 1960s, when a poor Romanian accountant was trying to make ends meet and feed his family. His salary was so low that he was getting desperate — living basically on $88 a month was a torture. Mandel couldn’t find a job with a higher pay at the time, and resorting to illegal activities was against his moral code. So he came up with a solution that, perhaps, only he could think of: lottery. Now, for most people that would be lunacy. I mean, what chance do you have, one in a million? I don’t think I’ll surprise you if I say it might be even less than tha