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Ancient Rome had a tax on urine.

Urine was collected and sold for tanning leather and for cleaning and whitening wool togas. Emperor Nero taxed it, and Vespasian brought the tax back around 70 AD.

Source: Wikipedia: Pecunia non olet

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