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TIL that the Ottoman Empire had a de jure vassal in Xinjiang between 1865 and 1877 called Yettishar

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8aGRb TIL In Japan, a festival called Kanamara Matsuri, or 'Festival of the Steel Phallus' celebrates the defeat of a vagina demon by an iron penis.
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