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Like the Great Hanoi Rat Massacre. [1] You get what you pay for! 1: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hanoi-rat-massacre-1902 https://www.atlasobscura.com/

• andai 4y ago
  Other examples include India had a bounty for snakes, so people started snake farms. My favorite one though is about the British paying China for dinosaur fossils, but they paid per fragment, so (naturally!) entire fossils were smashed into many small pieces.
  • zibby8 4y ago
    The Mexican government paid for the ears or scalps of Apache Native Americans. A gang of marauders called the Glanton Gang went around murdering anyone they encountered to take their ears/scalps.