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TIL about the Japanese pocket knife “Higonokami”. After feudal Japan slowly transformed into a modern industrial state, samurai became obsolete and were banned from carrying swords in public. Consequently, blacksmiths started making knives; with the higonokami becoming the most unique one.

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