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WEIRD BUT TRUE

Bank mistakenly deposits few moments, he picks

$37m into woman’s account up the soap and T-shirt
and starts imitating
how he had seen the
A woman in the United States discovered her bank zookeeper scrub her
account had more than $37 million in it — but it turned clothes. A female chimp
out to be a clerical error. Rush Balloon of Dallas said is seen casually sitting
she checked her account on top of a nearby trellis,
balance at LegacyTexas indifferently watching
Bank and was shocked her mate. The video
to see $37,203,337 in the posted by WEVIDEO has
account that she couldn’t received more than four
explain. “I was like, ‘wow, million views.
we have a lot of money,’”
she told KTVT-TV.
Balloon said she
told her husband about
the mysterious fortune Two-headed snake
and he called the bank. discovered in Bengal
LegacyTexas Bank told the couple the money was the
result of a clerical error and the mistake was corrected. Wildlife officials in India said a two-headed snake was
“I was a millionaire, I have a screen shot of it so I can say discovered in a village, but locals refused to turn the
that now,” Balloon said. “It’s quite a story.” serpent over because they believe it has mythological
meaning.
Forest Department officials said the two-headed
monocled cobra, a venomous species, was discovered in
Chimpanzee washes clothes Midnapore City, Bengal. Kaustav Chakraborty, a Forest
with soap bar at Chinese zoo Department herpetologist, said villagers refused to turn
the cobra over to the department because they believe
the two-headed creature holds mythological
A curious chimpanzee at a zoo in Southwest China’s significance.
Chongqing Municipality seems to have learned to “This is totally a biological issue like a human being can
wash clothes with a bar of soap and a scrub brush after have two heads or thumbs similarly this snake has two
watching a zoo keeper do her laundry. heads. This doesn’t have
The zookeeper at Leheledu Zoo, surnamed Xu, said to do anything related to
she noticed the curious primate intently observing her mythological belief. The
scrubbing her clothes in basin. She decided to leave a longevity of such species
T-shirt, soap and brush beside a small pool of water in the increases by keeping them
animal’s enclosure, just to see what would happen. in captivity. The
“I never intended to teach him, but he watched me life span of this snake
nonstop so I wondered if he would do it on his own,” said can be increased if it is
the zookeeper. preserved,” Chakraborty
Video shows the chimp wandering over to the shallow was quoted as saying by
in-ground pool and after puzzling over the items for a ANI News.

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