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Two gas stations were revealed as the locations where two lucky people beat the one in 292.2 million odds of winning the second-largest prize in Powerball history.

The tickets were purchased at a QuikTrip in north St. Louis County on 12110 Lusher Road and Bigs Gas Station off US Highway 290 in Fredericksburg, Texas.

The two winners will split the massive jackpot after both matched all six numbers in the drawing.

‘Congratulations to our newest Powerball jackpot winners and the Missouri Lottery and Texas Lottery for selling the winning tickets,’ said Matt Strawn, Powerball Product Group Chair and Iowa Lottery CEO in a press statement.

He continued: ‘Each $2 ticket sold during this Powerball jackpot run gave players a chance at the prize, while also supporting vital public programs and services in their communities – and that’s worth celebrating!’

The winners don’t receive their cut of $893.5million straightaway, they choose the delivery of either 30 annual payments or an immediate lump sum of $410.3 million. Both prize options are before taxes.

‘It was a record setting night for the Missouri Lottery, with the $893.5 million prize ranking as the highest jackpot prize won in Missouri to date,’ said Executive Director Lester Elder.

‘It exceeds the previous record of $293.7 million from a Powerball drawing held in November 2012.’

But we may never know who the winner is. Missouri passed a state law in 2021 that grants lottery winners full anonymity, making it illegal to publish a winner’s information without their explicit written consent.

The Texas winner can choose to remain anonymous if their price is valued at one million or more.

The Texas gas station manager, Melanie Carter, was ecstatic to find out her store sold the golden ticket. She received a text from her employees at around 5.30am.

She told CBS Austin: ‘Nobody ever thinks, “hey, my store’s going to win a jackpot” but here we are.

‘I’m like, “no way. You know, nobody believes it.” So I get on my phone, and I look, and sure enough, it’s right there plain as day.’

Carter said more people purchased tickets as the jackpot increased. Because of the overwhelming amount of sales, she doesn’t know who the winner is or which employee printed the ticket.

The Powerball game had a historic 42 drawings before the grand prize was claimed. It was US’s second largest lottery prize in the 33-year history of Powerball.

Missouri applies a four percent state tax on the prize. The Texas winner will take home an even bigger payout, since there’s no taxes applied on lottery winnings there.

The winning numbers were 11, 23, 44, 51 and 62 with a Powerball number of 17.

Yahoo News created a list of the odds of winning the lottery vs other unlikely life events.

The top five were: Being eaten by a shark, being struck by lightning twice, becoming US president, dying in a plane crash and being hit by debris from a plane.