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I'm from another country from one of the top3 inflations in history (Germany is #5). My dad just told me a few weeks ago that back when he was a kid, after using the long-drop toilet, they legit had banknotes to wipe their butt.
Quite the achievement
Twice in a month!
(AFAIK it was the same thing, they just went through political changes during the Balkan war in 1994)