13: A glassware tax affair
Lateral with Tom Scott
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I'll Give You That Again
Velandingham was demonstrating how it might have been the case for Myers to draw his gun from his pocket and accidentally shoot himself. The lawyer perished a few days later. In 1805, the scientist Alexander von Humboldt was working in France. He imported a large number of specially made glass tubes from his native Germany. How did he find a way to avoid the large import duty on scientific equipment? He put them in his butt.
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