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Can confirm. Back in India, my grandparents had a driver who later won the lottery. He used the winnings to buy two elephants, what he thought were a good inve
by fakedang 6y ago
Can confirm.
Back in India, my grandparents had a driver who later won the lottery. He used the winnings to buy two elephants, what he thought were a good investment (elephants are regularly rented out for expensive sums to temples for functions and celebrations).
Now he's a driver once more. But he has two elephants tho.
- User23 6y agoI remember reading somewhere that Roman emperors would give troublesome patricians an elephant as a gift. If he let the elephant die it was a grave insult and the emperor would proscribe him and take all his stuff. And otherwise he’d be stuck paying for the upkeep of a useless elephant.
- ardy42 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_elephant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_elephant