National Lottery Heritage Fund awards £9.7m
National Lottery Heritage Fund awards £9.7m to another great British Institution. The Royal Observatory, was rewarded the funds to secure and maintain current and future buildings.
In a move to preserve and create more space for interactive talks, presentations for visitors, the Heritage Fund has given just under 10 million in funding to The First Light project.
If you want to read more about the Lottery Heritage fund and connection to Gambling in the UK, read here.
Facts about the National Lottery
The National Lottery has a pretty impressive record, unmatched, and their road to support the public is widening with new exiting projects.
More Information about their work and achievements is available here.
Top 10 National Lottery Heritage Fund Fact
- The highest Jackpot winner lived in Zephyrhills, Florida. Gloria MacKenzie didn’t just hit it big; she made history. Her win was 590.5 million USD.
- The National Lottery UK has produced an astounding number of over 3700 millionaires since 1994.
- The average Jackpot winner owns 4.5 cars.
- The odds of winning a Jackpot vary from 1 to 360 million or 1 to 170 million. The odds of getting struck by lightning are 1 to 1.2 million.
- Being dealt a Royal flush in Poker: Your chances of getting a royal flush in a five-card game are 0.00015% only.
- If you are not living close to the sea and water, the chance of being killed by a shark is one in seven million.
- Dying in an airplane crash is one in 11 million with normal flying hours recorded.
- Having twins is one in 250.
- Finding the lucky four-leaf clover is one in 10000.
- The chances of being born on a leap day are one in 1461.
