alt Hacker News> There was a line in Discworld about some people in Ankh Morpork taking to breeding rats to collect the rat catching fee.
That is maybe based on Hanoi rat massacre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanoi_Rat_Massacre
> There was a line in Discworld about some people in Ankh Morpork taking to breeding rats to collect the rat catching fee.
That is maybe based on Hanoi rat massacre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanoi_Rat_Massacre
And there I was, honestly thinking Terry Pratchett had come up with it all on his own.
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