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And windows being covered with bricks for tax reasons.
by JBiserkov 2y ago
And windows being covered with bricks for tax reasons.
- coldpie 2y agoThe window tax features prominently in a visual novel video game (The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles), which also contains a bunch of wildly outlandish historical nonsense and characters like mad-scientist inventors, teleportation devices, and Sherlock Holmes types. I was blown away to learn the window tax was actually a real thing, not something silly just made up for the game.
- crtasm 2y agoTaxes were also part of the reason newspapers got so large: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadsheet#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadsheet#History
- JBiserkov 2y agoFascinating!
- fennecbutt 2y agoAnd also the reason that houses in Amsterdam are so narrow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_the_Netherlands#Architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_the_Netherlands#Arc...
- mandibles 2y agoDaylight Robbery [1] [1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43805741-daylight-robbery https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43805741-daylight-robber...