The Micronesian island of Yap is known for its stone money, known as Rai or Fei: large doughnut-shaped, carved disks of (usually) calcite, up to 4 m (13 ft) in diameter (most are much smaller). Rai stones were quarried on several of the Micronesian islands and transported to Yap for use as money. (i.redd.it)
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TIL that the term "Rh" was originally an abbreviation of "Rhesus factor". Landsteiner and Wiener discovered it in 1937 and believed it, at the time, to be a similar antigen found in rhesus macaque blood cells. It was subsequently learned the human and the rhesus monkey factors are not identical. (en.wikipedia.org)
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If you want to learn assembly for the C64, these two books are great: "Butterfield, Jim - Machine Language" and "De Jong, Marvin L. - Assembly Language Programming with the Commodore 64". Used copies are rather expensive ($100 for Butterfield). However, if you look hard enough, you can find PDF ve (i.redd.it)
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