It must be true...

I read it in the tabloids

■■An Arizona man hit a nearly $230,000 jackpot on a slot machine in Las Vegas—but left without realizing what he’d won. When the slot player got a screen reading “Resolving progressive prize. Please wait,” he lingered a few minutes, then left to make a dinner reservation. Two days later, workers fixing the malfunctioning machine “detected the jackpot hit,” said the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Investigators spent three weeks tracking down the unknowing winner through surveillance video, witness interviews, and a credit card payment to a ridehailing service. He was delivered a check for $229,368.52.

■■A British monkey sanctuary hired a Marvin Gaye impersonator to croon love songs to endangered Barbary macaques in hopes it might put them in the mood to mate. “We thought it could be a creative way to encourage our females to show a little affection,” said Matt Lovatt of the Trentham Monkey Forest. Gaye impersonator David Largie serenaded the primates with “Let’s Get It On” and “Sexual Healing.” Zookeepers said it would take some months to tell whether mating had occurred.

■■An Oregon woman spent a year training to be a DEA agent—but found out the federal agent supposedly training her was an impostor. The ruse was exposed when a Portland, Ore., police officer saw the pair next to a car with flashing emergency lights. The cop quickly recognized that the woman’s DEA credentials were fake. She said the “agent,” Robert Edward Golden, had taken her on nightly ride-alongs and practice shooting. Golden insisted the DEA identities were part of “cosplay,” but was arrested.