Maine sold the lone winning Mega Millions ticket for the $1.35 billion jackpot game on Friday.

The ticket was purchased from a gas station in Lebanon.

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The annuitized jackpot's potential value is $1.35 billion.

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The possible cash payout in one single amount is $724.6 million.

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In Mega Millions history, this is the fourth $1 billion jackpot, and

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the second-largest ever, only topped by South Carolina's lottery record of $1.537 billion won in 2018.

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Fred Cotreau, the proprietor of the gas station where the ticket was purchased, admitted that he initially believed the lottery office's call at 6 a.m. to be a prank.

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In the drawing, 14 tickets also won $1 million prizes.

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,selling four of those tickets in New York, two in California, one in each of Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Texas, and one in Florida.

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