TIL that the Micronesian island of Yap uses giant boulders as a form of currency.
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20180502-the-tiny-island-with-human-sized-money
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https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20180502-the-tiny-island-with-human-sized-money
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The tiny island with human-sized money
The Micronesian island of Yap has a famously unusual currency: hundreds of giant discs of rocks scattered all over the island, many of them too heavy to move.Robert Michael Poole (BBC)
