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The cult that used sarin gas on Tokyo subways was trying to mine uranium in the Australian outback

The term dollar came from an early silver mine in Joachimthal. The coins made there were heavy, popular. Became known as Joachimthalers, then shortened to thalers, which was bastardized into the English “dollar”