Apparently in Nazi times someone dissolved gold into aqua regia (npr.org), so it looked like a beaker of liquid on the shelf. Crazy thinking it could get poured down a drain and be gone forever.
Apparently in [Nazi times someone dissolved gold into aqua regia](https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/10/03/140815154/dissolve-my-nobel-prize-fast-a-true-story), so it looked like a beaker of liquid on the shelf. Crazy thinking it could get poured down a drain and be gone forever.
Some waste treatment plants pull out the gold. It turns out, there is a lot. Thousands of pounds per year in large municipalities.
Some waste treatment plants pull out the gold. It turns out, there is a lot. Thousands of pounds per year in large municipalities.
Thousands of pounds per year in large municipalities.
What. The. Fuck.
> Thousands of pounds per year in large municipalities.
What. The. Fuck.
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