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More impressive to me is the fact that Britain is still paying interest on a debt from 1720 (due to South Sea Bubble krach)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/world/that-debt-from-1720-...

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In Germany there is still payments going on which date back to the German mediatization because of compensations for exproriated property or liabilities on the propriety which switched the owner to some other princes and in turn now the state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_mediatization

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