Maine sold the lone winning ticket in the $1.35 billion Mega Millions jackpot game.

The ticket was purchased from a gas station in Lebanon.

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A $1.35 billion annuitized jackpot is possible for the estimated prize.

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whereas the possible cash distribution in one single sum would be $724.6 million.

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

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, and the second-largest ever; the lottery's record of $1.537 billion won in South Carolina in 2018 is the only one that has ever been higher.

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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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