Saturday, Aug 15, 2020, 1:56 pm

By:Tony Williams

#9 Bricks

The British decided to start collecting tax on bricks in 1784 and it was purely because of the debt that they had managed to rack up fighting in the United States. This led to companies making bigger bricks because less of them would then need to be used, but then the government brought in a law that limited the size of the bricks.