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240 → 100
Britain once divided a pound into 240 pennies.
Before Decimal Day on 15 February 1971, a British pound contained 240 old pence. Decimalisation kept the pound but divided it into 100 new pence instead.
Britain once divided a pound into 240 pennies.
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Nintendo was founded in 1889 to sell handmade playing cards.
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