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TIL that many countries used to divide their currency into sub-units that weren’t powers of 10. Most European countries converted to a decimal system in the 1800s, but many former British colonies didn’t do so until the 1960s and 1970s. The UK and Ireland didn’t decimalize until 1971.

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