Hungary holds the world record for the highest monthly inflation ever recorded: 41.9 quadrillion percent (4.19 × 10^16%) in July 1946. Prices doubled every 15 hours, a daily inflation rate of 207%
The Town That Died: In 1973, the entire town of Mazamet, France, laid down in the streets as ‘dead’ to symbolize the 16,500 people killed on French roads the previous year, leading to immediate safety reforms (10 mn video)
