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TIL Bosnia's currency, the convertible mark, was originally divided into 100 'pfennig' named after 1/100 of the German mark. However since it was seen as unpronounceable in Bosnian it was renamed 'fenig', but banknotes and coins issued misspelled it as 'fening' which has never been corrected.

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