Millions of Americans on Wednesday will try their luck at winning a $700 million Powerball jackpot. The odds of taking home the second largest U.S. lottery jackpot in history are one in 292.2 million, officials said.

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“You’re far more likely to die at a trip to the Grand Canyon than win the Powerball,” Amram Shapiro, a strategic statistician and author of The Book of Odds, told TIME in January 2016, when the jackpot hit $1.5 billion. “That’s the scale of all of this. It’s fascinating. They’re buying a dream.” Shapiro, of Massachusetts, drew from a research trove of more than 400,000 statements of probability to write the 2014 reference source of statistics on everyday life.

“There’s a point of view that says people who buy lottery tickets are being foolish because the expected return on their investment is so poor,” Shapiro said. “But at the same time there is a kind of mass phenomenon that attracts people. What you’re really paying for is the right to dream about what it would be like to have your life utterly transformed by money.”

Here are 10 things that are more likely to occur than winning the lottery:

1. Dying from an asteroid strike: 1 in 74,817,414

A final, yellow Powerball only ranges from one to 26, but always comes last. The one-in-292-million odds come from all the different combinations you can win by picking the right five white. Odds of Winning. Around 70 to 80 percent of Powerball players use Quick Pick tickets, and the same percentage of winning entries are Quick Picks. This shows that regardless of whether players choose to select their own numbers or not, the odds of winning remain the same.

2. Getting killed by a terrorist act in the United States: 1 in 10,000,000

3. Getting murdered during a trip to the Grand Canyon: 1 in 8,156,000

4. Dying from chronic constipation: 1 in 2,215,900

5. Becoming a movie star: 1 in 1,505,000

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6. Getting struck by lightning: 1 in 1,101,000

7. Dying from a hornet, wasp or bee sting: 1 in 79,842

8. Bowling a 300 game: 1 in 11,500

9. Being the same height actor Hugh Jackman, who is 6-foot-2: 1 in 23.3

10. Becoming disabled, disfigured or killed by a parasite: 1 in 7.2

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