BBC News reports a Canadian couple claimed a winning lottery ticket days before the deadline due to a stroke of luck.
Nicole Pedneault and Roger Larocque bought the Loto-Quebec ticket on Valentine’s Day last year and forgot about it.
Then Ms Pedneault came across the ticket last weekend as she was going through a book she had brought back from holiday.
Their claim on the prize would have expired on Friday.
The Quebec couple claimed the C$1m ($748,000; £572,000) grand prize in Montreal on Wednesday.
The ticket draw took place on 5 April 2018 and winners have a year to claim the prize.
Ms Pedneault had been searching through souvenirs the couple had bought during a trip to Japan to help her grandson with a school project.
That was when she noticed the lotto ticket tucked away in the pages of a book they had purchased.
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