Macadamia nuts became famous far from home

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Macadamia trees are entirely native to the rainforests of Australia, but early settlers largely ignored them. Hawaiian plantations enthusiastically imported the seeds, commercialized them, and completely dominated the global supply of a nut that doesn't even belong there.

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The one-year steel penny

Roman soldiers were frequently paid a portion of their official wages in regular rations of salt, a historical practice that permanently embedded the concept of seasoning into our modern economic vocabulary.

Australian military forces officially declared war on a flock of emus in 1932 because the giant flightless birds were devastating the Western Australian wheat economy during the Great Depression.

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