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Beard Tax

4 treetalker 1 5/13/2025, 1:02:40 AM en.wikipedia.org ↗

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Elaris · 5h ago
Wow, I had no idea beard taxes were a real thing — definitely thought it was a meme or a Monty Python joke at first Learned something new today.

Apparently Peter the Great actually made people pay to keep their beards in Russia, and they even gave you a little token to prove you paid. That’s both weird and… kind of brilliant?

Funny how something as everyday as facial hair could be turned into a policy lever. History never runs out of surprises.