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These Precious Historical Artifacts Were Discovered in Pawn Shops

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Soldiers from World War One wearing gas masks. Jstor. 

13. The Customer Never Came Back For The Mammoth Tooth

Fossilized mammoth tooth. The University of Kentucky.

There is a rare possibility that you could still see the mammoth tooth at that Virginia pawn shop. The customer who requested to sell it for a short-term loan never bothered coming back to purchase the tooth. While the only information the employee has about the tooth is that it’s thousands of years old, he doesn’t plan on selling it. 

According to the new owner of the tooth, there are some things that you receive in a pawn shop that you don’t put back out for sale, and a fossilized mammoth tooth is one. 

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