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TIL that a bullet fee is a charge assessed to the family of executed prisoners. They literally would charge for the bullet used. Bullet fees have been levied in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, as well as in the People's Republic of China, and Nazi Germany.

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