A Pennsylvania owner of a pharmacy gave $20 lottery tickets to his relatives for Christmas, later on discovering that one of those tickets won the $1M lottery. Fred DePasquale, owner of The Medicine Shoppe, said that he bought 35 tickets from his own store, giving away 20 to relatives, five to customers, and 10 to himself. It was later on that one of the tickets, given to an in-law, won the $1 million prize.

Another lucky ticket was purchased by someone on Fond du Lac, Wisconsin's "Miracle Mile. " Last Tuesday, a winning ticket for a $1 million lottery jackpot was purchased at a store on a street where winning tickets claimed multimillion-dollar jackpots last year and in the 1990s. The ticket for the Holiday Millions Raffle was sold at a Ma and Pa's Grocery Express outlet in a stretch of downtown Fond du Lac where another Ma and Pa's store sold a $208. 6 million Powerball ticket in 2006 and several others sold multimillion-dollar tickets in the 1990s.

It was a festive and rich Christmas for 1,850 Spaniards holding the winning number 06381 for Spain's lottery. With a $3. 1 million jackpot, the winners received $430,000 each. The jackpot money was spread across 11 Spanish provinces where the tickets were sold, including Madrid, Barcelona and Alicante. In contrast, ticket holders of the second prize all came from Barcelona.

Santa Claus still gets the most mail, according to the Universal Postal Union (UPU). In 2006 Santa received more than six million letters that are answered by postal workers in 20 countries. Written by children and filled with the most fanciful wishes, these missives are often addressed simply "To Santa, North Pole. "

A recent poll done by ABC News disclosed some interesting wishes that adults had for Santa Claus this Christmas season. The results showed wishes that would be considered expected and usual, as well as humanitarian wishes such as love and peace. And there were some that were more than a bit unusual, such as teeth. The survey revealed that ten percent of Americans wished for a new car - a notable 6 percent decrease from the numbers gathered during the 2005 holiday season. Six percent wanted cash, reported the UPI. It ranged from "10 million dollars," "$300,000 wrapped in ribbon," to "financial security" as suggested by a Minneapolis woman who said, "I'd like to have my bills paid off. "