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TIL that when Mansa Musa (richest person in history) went through Cairo, Medina and Mecca in order to perform pilgrimage, he distributed so much gold and gifts that it caused super inflation. Prices of goods skyrocketed so much that even after 12 years the markets still didnt fully recover.

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