A South Carolina man beat the odds with a winning lottery ticket worth $100,000—and he actually managed to claim the money after he accidentally threw the ticket into the trash.

The unnamed winner from Newberry says that he had thrown the Palmetto Cash 5 ticket away after he mistakenly checked the winning numbers for the previous day and assumed that he had lost.

He only realized his mistake the following day when he saw the results for the January 24th drawing and found that he had successfully matched all five numbers of the drawing: 9, 15, 25, 27, and 30.

"I couldn't believe it," he told the South Carolina Education Lottery.

Thankfully, he managed to recover the ticket from the trash and claim his prize.

He now plans on using the winnings to set up a college fund for his grandkids and donate the rest to charity.

The odds of winning that particular lotto prize are reportedly 1 in 501,942, but those odds are probably higher if the winner also has to dig through the dumpster to find the ticket—so make sure to always double-check your numbers before you chuck them in the garbage.

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