stackyFACTSBureaucracy always produces the most aesthetically pleasing architecture. To fund colonial wars, the government taxed bricks by the unit, causing clever developers to simply produce comically oversized bricks, permanently altering the visual landscape of structural design until lawmakers finally realized their metric was totally flawed.
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