Jason Bailey

Here’s a question: If you were super rich, could you buy every existing combination of numbers and guarantee a win?

The answer is yes . . . but it’s a terrible idea.

It would cost $584 million to buy every combination . . . and you’d need a whole army of people buying them around the clock to have enough time to buy all 292 million tickets.

The lump-sum jackpot payment is estimated to be about $868 million, which would give you a $284 million profit if you bought every ticket.

But . . . if any other person hits the jackpot and you have to split it, you go from a $284 million win to at least a $100 million loss. And you’ve only got a 22% chance of being the only winner . . . which makes it a terrible bet.

A recent survey asked people how far they’re willing to go to avoid getting sick . . .

55% said they’ve used hand sanitizer after shaking someone’s hand . . . 35% have opened a door knob with their sleeve . . . 25% have actually asked someone who’s sick to stay away from them . . . and 6% have worn a medical mask in public.

The survey also asked people how they prevent their significant other from getting them sick. Here are the top five answers . . .

1. 54% said they avoid kissing them if they’re sick.

2. 39% avoid sex . . . so 61% don’t?

3. 31% wash their hands more often.

4. 17% would cancel a date, so they didn’t have to deal with it.

5. 16% avoid sleeping in the same bed together.

The survey also found 66% of us would give up social media or alcohol to avoid getting sick. But it doesn’t say how long you’d have to give it up for.

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Do you believe in conspiracy theories? In a 2013 study published in Frontiers in Psychology, a team of psychologists developed a set of 15 questions to determine whether or not people are likely to subscribe to conspiracy theories. Here are all 15 statements. If you want to score yourself, rate each as: definitely not true (1 point), probably not true (2 points), not sure/cannot decide (3 points), probably true (4 points), or definitely true (5 points). Then add up all your answers and divide by 15 to get your score on a scale of 1 (not a conspiracist) to 5 (tinfoil hat conspiracist):

1. The government is involved in the murder of innocent citizens and/or well-known public figures, and keeps this a secret.
2. The power held by heads of state is second to that of small unknown groups who really control world politics.
3. Secret organizations communicate with extraterrestrials, but keep this fact from the public.
4. The spread of certain viruses and/or diseases is the result of the deliberate, concealed efforts of some organization.
5. Groups of scientists manipulate, fabricate, or suppress evidence in order to deceive the public.
6. The government permits or perpetrates acts of terrorism on its own soil, disguising its involvement.
7. A small, secret group of people is responsible for making all major world decisions, such as going to war.
8. Evidence of alien contact is being concealed from the public.
9. Technology with mind-control capacities is used on people without their knowledge.
10. New and advanced technology which would harm current industry is being suppressed.
11. The government uses people as patsies to hide its involvement in criminal activity.
12. Certain significant events have been the result of the activity of a small group who secretly manipulate world events.
13. Some UFO sightings and rumors are planned or staged in order to distract the public from real alien contact.
14. Experiments involving new drugs or technologies are routinely carried out on the public without their knowledge or consent.

You’ve got a one in 292.2 million shot of winning the $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot this Wednesday. Not to kick your optimism in the groin, but here are five ridiculous things with better odds . . .

1. You’re 25 times more likely to become President of the United States than win the Powerball.

2. Winning would be like flipping a coin 28 times in a row and getting heads every time.

3. You’re four times more likely to be hit by an asteroid.

4. You’re 10 times more likely to die in a fatal car accident on your way to buy Powerball tickets than to win.

5. And you’re 508 times more likely to become a billionaire through some other means.

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If you want to get your relationship started off on the right foot in 2016, here are four resolutions you should make . . .

1. Do something exciting. Studies have shown that couples who do exciting activities together feel closer and more satisfied in their relationship . . . anything from riding a roller coaster to going rock climbing,.

2. Crack more jokes. Humor relieves stress and defuses tension. And couples who laugh and have fun together on a regular basis tend to rate their relationships as more satisfying.

3. Put your phone away. New research shows that just having your phone out during a face-to-face conversation reduces people’s satisfaction with that conversation . . . even if you never even touch it. Nevermind texting or talking.

4. Have more sex. Obviously.

Psych Central

58-year-old Mike Bell works at a car dealership in McKinney, Texas, just north of Dallas. And he wasn’t feeling great last April, but decided to power

Mike Bell was made to take a sick day by his boss.

through it and go to work anyway. Luckily, he has a pretty great boss.

The owner of the dealership is a guy named Gus Rodriguez. And when he saw how sick Mike was, he told him he had to take a sick day and see a doctor.

So Mike did. Then while he was at a hospital getting an X-ray a few hours later, he collapsed.

It turned out he had an infected tooth, and the infection had spread to his blood. Then when he coughed, he tore his aorta, and needed open-heart surgery. And his doctor says that if he hadn’t come in, he would have died within hours.

He ended up in the hospital for two weeks, and couldn’t work for the next few months. But he says Guy told him he wasn’t allowed to come back until he was fully recovered, and also made sure he could keep paying his bills while he was out.

Celebrities have a tendency to choose unusual baby names, so BabyCenter.com recently polled over 1,000 people to ask them which ones were the best of 2015, and which they did not like.

Technically, not all the kids were born in 2015, but they’re all relatively close.

Here are the top five, in no particular order . . .

• Prince William and Duchess Catherine’s daughter Charlotte Elizabeth Diana

• Ice-T and Coco Austin’s daughter Chanel Nicole

• Nick and Vanessa Lachey’s daughter Brooklyn Elisabeth

• Carrie Underwood and Mike Fisher’s son Isaiah Michael

• Jennifer Love Hewitt and Brian Hallisay’s son Atticus James

Here are people’s five LEAST favorite, in no particular order . . .

• Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s son Saint West

• Ashlee Simpson and Evan Ross’ daughter Jagger Snow

• Liv Tyler and David Gardner’s son Sailor Gene

• Zoe Saldana and Marco Perego’s son Bowie Ezio. He’s a twin. His brother was named Cy Aridio, but he didn’t make the list.

• Zooey Deschanel and Jacob Pechenik’s daughter Elsie Otter

“America’s Funniest Home Videos” just posted a clip on YouTube of a baby who can’t stop laughing at the word “donkey” for some reason

Here’s something that might help you this winter. A former engineer for NASA recently did a bunch of tests, and figured out how to defrost the windows in your car twice as fast. Here are the four things you need to do . . .

1. Turn your heater up all the way. Hot air can hold more moisture than cold air, and that’s why blasting your windshield with hot air works better.

2. Turn your A/C on. Air conditioners pull moisture out of the air, which is key.

3. Make sure your air circulation setting is off. It’s usually a button with a picture of a car, and there’s a circular arrow in the middle of it. When it’s on, it only recirculates air that’s already inside your car.

The reason you want it off is because the air outside your car is colder. And cold air can’t hold as much moisture. So you want to draw it in and heat it up, so it sucks up more of the moisture that’s already in your car.

4. Crack your windows for a few seconds. Again, it’s about getting the humid air out, and the dry air in.

He also found you can prevent your windows from fogging up in the first place by wiping down the inside with shaving cream.

Nobody won the Powerball yesterday, and it’s up to 675 million now. So lets say you win the next drawing, who is the first person you would call?

According to a new survey, 46% of people say they’d call their significant other first. 10% say they’d call their lawyer. Smart.

Here are four more results from the survey . . .

1. 64% of people say they rarely use the same numbers every time they play.

2. When people pick their own numbers, 38% use birthdays and 11% use their anniversary.

3. People don’t really tune in to watch the lottery numbers drawn on TV anymore. Three out of four people get the results from the Internet.

4. And 18% say if they give someone a lottery ticket as a birthday present, and it’s a winner, they expect a cut.