I found this one out a couple of months ago but I still think it’s gonna shock some people that don’t live in America.
In 'Murica, the price presented on the shelf in the store, does not include the tax, you’ll be told how much the item costs with the tax only at the register.
This is ‘measuring stuff using your feet’ level of American stupidity, this is so pointless on so many levels that I can not even comprehend it.
If it’s any consolation to you, Japan does a similar thing. There’s the big price tag which shows the price without tax, and then a much smaller one somewhere next to it in brackets which shows the actual final price. Needles to say it caught me off guard when I moved here. This makes me wonder if they copied it from the US…
So anyone that has been shopping for themselves for more than a day can pretty much figure out what the cost will be with the tax included, just based on the price tag. It’s shocking for people that aren’t used to it, but no one I know in person has ever complained about it or gotten confused by the amount of tax.
It’s a little different when you travel and the place you’re in has a different tax rate. I know where I live there’s a 8.7% sales tax. I mentally add 10% to the price tag when I comparison shop as a matter of course.
It’s shocking because it’s pointless, there is absolutely no reason to separate the two, it is just confusing, yeah just making sure you have 10% cash of what you are buying is easy to memorize and makes it a whole lot easier, but it’s still so pointless, it’s not like you can get that money back, you are still paying it, so why not including it in tax?
Must be a nightmare to work in retail over there, knowing how much stuff left behind at the register you have to move back to its proper shelf. As for the price tags not reflecting the real price, that’s pretty much illegal over here and ofc customers throwing a fit in your face.
I love the need to remember to always have a bit more cash in my wallet for tax and doing a bit of math when buying stuff /s 
Working at a hotel, there are times I’ve been tasked with buying (whatever) from the local Walmart. When I pay for it (using the hotel’s money or their business credit card) I have to give them a tax exempt card, and they don’t add the tax. Apparently this is because hotel guests are paying the hotel the tax when they pay to stay in a room. And everything they can get is included in the price they pay.
There was one time a guy from… across the Atlantic… 
made a huge fuss about having to pay the tax on his hotel room. He outright refused to pay it… I think we (well, I) had to figure what the rate would have to be lowered by to equal the flat rate amount after tax. Because it’s “Uncle Sam” that demands his cut of the pur$e when we make a buck. I wonder how many more times he tried to pull that same act with other businesses he patronized? 
…I mean, before he realized that’s how things work here.
There are some things that don’t (seem to) add tax, but I’m assuming they’re already figured into the cost. Vending machines always have items at a flat/even rate. Like .50 cents, $1.00, $2.00, or whatever. Gas pumps will always give you the total and tax is already figured into the amount you’ll pay -that you see at the pump.
It is annoying, but you just learn to live with it.
Then there’s property tax. 
Since my father passed away back in 21’, I now have his house, land, my car and truck, and the car and truck that was T’dOD to me. I had to pay over $700 in property tax for all that stuff. And that’s once every year. I’ve sold one car… so that’ll be around $100 less I’ll have to pay next year.
Well, if you’re interested in the reason(s), here you go:
Prices INCLUDE tax on the sign outside of North America?
I mean… I’ve been outside NA but I surely didn’t pay attention to that last time I was out.
Yes, I’m paying for it anyway and theres no legal way to avoid it, so why not including it in the price?
You won’t see chickens over here holding calculators to figure out how much more they’ll need to pay at the register for tax
Wait 'till you hear that you don’t need to drive to get to a supermarket since there are stores at every corner over here 
Not to mention the existence of a public transport system 
So I just found out that this forum has all of this as well as the HITMAN channel topics. This forum is so much more than first thought! Excellent - I have a lot of reading to do! 
And yet you’re already a regular.
Non-Regular old frequent members, rise up!
Yeah, I primarily just spent my time in HITMAN 3 channels - I didn’t bother to scroll down to see that there were in fact many more channels than just HITMAN 
Today I learned that automatic gearbox coaches exist.
That was a surprise for me.
All buses and coaches I saw before were manual.
Except of electrical of course, but this one I rode today was petrol or diesel one
You can even get a big rig (I think you call it a lorry) with an automatic transmission now.
As someone who gives tests for licenses for a living, I’ve known this for five years. To be fair, didn’t know it before that.
I found out that, while in the main index, or even in a thread/topic, with no text prompt active - the space bar makes the screen scroll downward. 
Edit: Yeah. Found it by accident. I wonder if there’s a way to disable this? If not, I’ll try to be more careful.
I think that is default browser behavior. At least my Firefox does that on every website that does not actively prevent it.
