Maybe you’re the kind of person who’d donate most of the money to charity or perhaps you’d be straight on a plane and out of the UK to head to Australia.

But whatever it is you dream of, you probably only ever imagine winning the lottery once.

Whereas this bloke managed to win it a whopping 14 times. Now imagine what you could do if you won the jackpot over and over.

It almost seems impossible, especially with it being so hard for you to win it just once.

However, Stefan Mandel used some basic maths to ‘beat the system’ rather than us lot relying on luck and our mum’s birthday.

The Romanian mathematician came up with a genius method, leading to him and many others bagging a fortune.

Teaming up with a group of investors to form a syndicate called the International Lotto Fund, Mandel targeted a series of lotteries globally.

In an old interview on YouTube, the economist explained his theory, which he called ‘combinatorial condensation’.

“Theoretically, anybody can buy all the possible combinations,” he said. “Any high school boy or girl can calculate those combinations.

“Nobody has ever developed a logistical system to lodge such a large amount of play slips. We were the only winners and that was it.”

So, take the lottery in Virginia, US, for example. Mandel calculated that with players picking six numbers from one to 44, there were 7,059,052 combinations to choose from.

And to make matters even more favourable with this particular game, players were allowed to print their play slips/coupons at home, meaning Mandel and his group could do so without alerting suspicion – even though what they were doing was totally legal.

In February 1992, on top of the $27 million jackpot, they took home $900,000 in additional prizes for the tickets placing second, third, fourth and so on.

This plan alerted the suspicions of the authorities, with an investigator in Australia contacting the Virginia Lottery to tell them not to pay out.

They claimed Mandel and his syndicate were involved in money laundering. However, they found that the team had done nothing wrong.

Mandel is now said to live in Vanuatu, having ‘retired from the lottery’. Speaking to Romanian newspaper Bursa back in 2012, he said: “I’m a man who takes risks, but in a calculated way.

“Trimming my beard is a lottery: There is always the possibility that I’ll cut myself, get an infection in my blood and die — but I do it anyway. The chances are in my favour.”

From hosts like Nikki Glaser making iconic jokes about the stars to Adrien Brody throwing chewing gum at the Oscars, this year’s season has provided plenty of things to chat about and memeify online.

But Amanda Seyfried has just given us a blast from the past as she admitted her ‘boobs fell out’ at an awards show two years ago while she was with a fellow A-List celebrity.

The star recalled the moment during her recent press for the upcoming TV series Long Bright River where she plays a Philly police officer.

“My boobs fell out of my dress at the 2023 Critics Choice Awards,” she told PEOPLE. “I was wearing this amazing vintage dress. I made my stylist dress up in it before I went just for fun.”

At the awards that year, she picked up Best Actress in a Movie/Miniseries for The Dropout and was embodying golden girl in a Dior Haute Couture gown.

“It was kind of sewn together and it started truly falling apart, literally falling off of me on the red carpet, and I think there were even interviews where I’m saying it’s breaking off,” Seyfried recalled.

She’d said to one reporter on the red carpet that it ‘keeps ripping’ and ‘keeps breaking’ as she promised she wasn’t ‘kidding’. Seyfried even joked she was going to take it off but it was so ‘beautiful’.

And it seems she certainly wasn’t kidding about the state of it as things ended up taking a turn while she was chatting to Glen Powell in a corner near her table.

“We were joking around about something and I lifted my arms up, and my boobs were just out. My dress fell apart,” the Mean Girls star explained.

But thankfully, Powell of course acted like a top bloke and handled the situation pretty well while they ‘both screamed’.

“And like the gentleman he is, he covered me. He didn’t look… I think. None of us were expecting that, but that dress had truly just given up,” Seyfried said.

But while Powell helped her out in that moment, she had to get up on stage to accept an award so ‘ended up wearing someone else’s jacket’ to cover up.

“Because, well, it would’ve just been my boobs,” the star added.

Footage of a submersible capturing some intriguing footage of a pre-historic sea animal has resurfaced, as it was making its way across the ocean floor.

The OceanX sub captured something so shocking that scientists that were working on it were left speechless – and it even made history.

If you’re made to feel uncomfortable by some GoPro footage that’s posted online of what may lay in the distance underwater, then this viral video will leave you shell-shocked.

It’s also a lot weirder, as we get to be up close and personal with the animal in question.

Originally posted on the OceanX YouTube channel in 2020, the short video captures the moment that explorers made the ground-breaking discovery.

In the description of the video, the company states that it partnered with the Cape Eleuthera Institute to become the first ever submersible to tag an animal.

“Our objective was the deep-sea shark, the bluntnose sixgill,” it explained.

“This ancient species predates most dinosaurs, and is a dominant predator of the deep sea ecosystem.”

FSU Marine Lab’s Dr. Dean Grubbs was the lead scientist on the mission, and succeeded in achieving the goal.

Grubbs let the team to become the first ever to put a satellite tag on the elusive species of sharks on the sea floor, with scientists in the past only able to do so by bringing them up to the surface.

The team did this on the sea floor, and the footage also shows how shocked the men were in the sub.

Spotting the shark swimming around it, one of them said: “Oh, wow!”

“Look at the width of that thing!”

Attempting to get her in the prime position to tag, they were hesitant to tag her when she was belly-side, waiting for her to get closer.

Which she did, pushing her nose up against the side of the submarine, glancing up at the intrigued scientists, even seeming to roll her eyes as she swam away.

The scientists couldn’t believe just how big the female shark was, pointing out that she was larger than average.

Her species usually grow up to 20-feet in length, but rarely anyone has been so up close and personal with one before.

The species predates most dinosaurs, meaning they have roamed the seas for tens of millions of years.

People were just as in awe in the comments section.

One user said: “If not the size, this shark’s eye alone would have given me a straight heart attack.”

Another commented: “That eye close-up was wicked.”

A third put: “Scientists, ‘Whoa.’ That’s when you know it’s serious.”

After Friends wrapped its 10th and final season, LeBlanc was the only star of the ensemble that agreed to a spin-off, titled Joey.

It saw the lovable character move to Los Angeles from New York, after all of his friends began their new lives, pursuing his acting career.

The sitcom ran for two seasons before being cancelled, and many don’t know what LeBlanc did after this.

While many may know him for his time in sitcom Episodes or as host of Top Gear in the 2010s, there’s a sizeable gap from his time as Joey to his resurgence over the last 10 to 15 years.

In a TikTok that has gone viral recently, his hiatus was finally explained, through clips of LeBlanc on talk shows revealing what his thinking was.

The 57-year-old actor was first clipped on Scandinavian TV show Skavlan, explaining: “My plan was, it was 10 years of Friends, and then I did two years of Joey, and then I said, ‘Right, I’m gonna take a year off, I wanna take a year off and just relax.’

“I had such a good time, I said, ‘I’m gonna take another one,’ right? And then that one was even better. So I said, ‘Maybe one more!’ And then it turned into five or six years,” he admitted while giggling to himself.

The American actor then revealed that his ‘favourite thing in the world to do’ is simply ‘nothing’.

I’m sure many of us can relate.

It’s easier said than done for the star though, who is estimated to still earn £16 million per year from Friends.

He went on: “It’s so easy.

“There’s no rules! ‘What are you gonna do today?’ I’ll tell you — nothing. Pretty simple.”

Another clip was part of the TikTok, this time with LeBlanc appearing on Conan, telling the SNL alumni host: “I should be a professional nothing. Because I think I would like to do not a f***ing thing. That’s what I would like to do. Just nothing. Nothing. Zero.”

Conan said he had to get something done, though the actor disagreed, clarifying that while he may wake up early some days, ‘it’s just not having to go somewhere or someone else telling you what you have to do’.

Users on social media loved LeBlanc’s care-free attitude too, as one wrote: “I can relate. Matt Leblanc is my spirit animal.”

Another added: “If I had his money, I would do exactly the same,” while a third joked: “He is Joey Tribbiani in real life, but with money.”

A different user pointed out: “So refreshing seeing someone really not caring about chasing more and more fame. Just chilling with his Friends cheques rolling in.”

During the early hours of 1 April, 2006, Brian Shaffer was seen walking into the Ugly Tuna Saloon in Columbus’ University District in Ohio, US.

He’d been out on the town with fellow student William ‘Clint’ Florence to celebrate them completing their exams, and had already been to the Ugly Tuna as they’d been bar-hopping throughout the night and come across a friend of Clint’s who drove them back there.

CCTV showed Brian Shaffer going up an escalator to return to the bar at around 1:15am.

Earlier into the night, at 10.00pm, Shaffer rang his girlfriend, Alexis Waggoner, to confirm their upcoming trip to Miami.

He told her he loved her as she was going away to visit her parents before coming back to meet with him on the following Monday.

Both Waggoner and his parents believed he was going to propose to her on their trip, but it never happened.

At 2.00am, the med student was seen for the last time as he was spotted in footage chatting with two women outside. It seems to show that he walked back in but no one could find him.

Call attempts from both Florence and Reed proved unsuccessful, and they went home once the bar shut, assuming he must have left himself.

Shaffer’s dad also tried to call him over the weekend, but every attempt went unanswered and he ended up missing his flight on the Monday morning.

In the first days of his disappearance, up to 50 police officers were searching for him at any one time, with his friends and family all being questioned, while everyone that undertook a lie detector test passed – except his roommate, who reportedly refused to part take in one.

And the two women Shaffer was spotted on CCTV with claimed they were not asked to take tests.

Waggoner said she tried to call him everyday, but it went straight to voicemail. Although, on one night in September, it apparently seemed to ring three times, but his service provider said it may have been a glitch with the system.

With his phone not being GPS enabled, authorities also couldn’t find its location.

While the final CCTV of Shaffer appears to show him walking offscreen and towards the bar entrance, the camera could have missed him, and the exit leads straight to a construction site.

Theories suggest he may have disappeared on purpose, perhaps changed his clothes or left to the construction site.

His family, however, insist that he had no motive to do so.

Several years ago, a man pictured in Tijuana, Mexico appeared to share a resemblance to Shaffer but the FBI concluded it wasn’t him.