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[October 8-14, 2017] Flushing gold down toilets, using drones to smell whales, and flying to HEL on Friday the 13th.

5. Swiss Toilets Flush With Gold

You might remember the fatberg lurking in London’s sewers, but in Switzerland, they have something else strange showing up underground. Researchers at waste treatment plants detected 6,600 pounds of silver and almost 100 pounds of gold in sewage. That’s about $3 million flushed down toilets a year! Despite the potential value, the scientists also reckoned it would cost many times the rare metals’ value to extricate them from the sludge.

4. Seinfeld Door Alarm

Evan Genuise, a freshman at Northern Arizona University, rigged his dorm room door with a sensor that plays the bass riff from Seinfeld. Geniuse says he plans to keep the door alarm up forever, and constantly annoy his friends with expectations of Kramer-like antics.

I build a door sensor for my dorm pic.twitter.com/veNXFobzPC

— evan