Wisconsin man, 24, wins $768M Powerball jackpot: 'I was going insane'
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Talk about early retirement.
A millennial just won the third-largest jackpot in U.S. lottery history, and the second-largest in Powerball history.
The 24-year-old suburban Milwaukee man said he screamed for about 5 or 10 minutes after realizing he won the $768 million Powerball jackpot.
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Manuel Franco, of West Allis, said his heart started racing when he realized one of the 10 individual tickets he bought a Powerball drawing last month was a winner.
“I was going insane,” Franco said. “I looked back at the three other numbers, they all matched. My heart started racing, my blood started pumping, I felt warm. I started screaming.”
He came forward at a news conference Tuesday in Madison, where Wisconsin's lottery is headquartered.
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The winning ticket was sold at a Speedway gas station in the suburb of New Berlin, a city of about 40,000 people roughly 14 miles southwest of Milwaukee. The gas station will get $100,000 for selling the winning ticket, officials said.
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Franco told reporters he quit his job a couple of days later but declined to say where he worked.
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Franco said he plans to be wise about spending his new wealth and wants "to help out the world."
He said he chose the cash option lump sum of $477 million.
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If you know or have known Franco, you probably won’t be getting any of his money.
“I’m ready, and I know how to say no,” Franco said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.