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Flush With Cash: Swiss Toilets Mysteriously Stuffed With 500-Euro Bills

Swiss authorities are puzzled by several toilet systems in Geneva that are clogged with shredded currency. Each individual bill is worth nearly $600.
These 500-euro notes are whole, dry and clean. The ones found this summer in several bathrooms in Geneva ... not so much.

Toilets in Geneva were clogged with tens of thousands of dollars' worth of discarded cash earlier this summer — and nobody knows why.

The bathrooms at a branch of the UBS bank

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