164. Lottery and Cottingley Fairies

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 https://linktr.ee/NightClassy 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/ Produced by Parasaur Studios © 2023