Economy
Why Australia's 50-cent coin has 12 sides
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Sometimes national economic policy is dictated entirely by clumsy people dropping their pocket change. The original 1966 Australian 50-cent piece was perfectly round and heavy. People complained that when dropped, it would roll endlessly into storm drains. The government's genius solution was to recast it as a massive, chunky dodecagon that physically refuses to roll anywhere.
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