TIL that in the 18th century English sailors aboard the HMS Dolphin stopped in Tahiti and discovered the women there would take iron in exchange for sex, resulting in the sailors removing nails from the ship and trading them in for their personal gratification.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dolphin_(1751)#Second_circumnavigation
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