What is a ‘Litfaßsäule’?

When you go to Germany you might see some of those round things, like the one in the picture, with advertising posters plastered all over them. As a child I always wondered what was inside, especially as I couldn’t find a door or a window. And then I found out there’s nothing inside. These columns are purely just for advertising, nothing else. They were invented in 1854 by German printer [...]

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