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NPR News Nuggets: A Euro Mystery, Cold Climbing & Pumpkin Madness

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Here's a quick roundup of some of the mini-moments you may have missed on this week's Morning Edition.

Not quite a pot of gold

Clogged toilets are nasty things from which nothing good comes. That's unless what's clogging the toilet is money, which just raiseshost Mary Louise Kelly said on Tuesday, Geneva prosecutors are investigating after shredded money appeared in a number of plumbing systems. They're interested in the motive, but not as much as they're interested in where the money came from. The , but luckily quite a few cases are solved when people follow the money. Although, this particular case involves some soggy notes.

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