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Anti-crime humps in medieval Venice

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  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You would have thought that everyone was in favor of street lights to prevent crime.

    Nope, because there were rich folks who thought that if the poor had lighted streets they’d party all night and be unfit to work the next day.

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