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TIL About Le Pétomane (Fartomaniac) A Frenchman famous for farting whose act included squirting water from his anus, imitating cannon fire and thunder, and playing the ocarina with his butt. He performed his act for royalty and Sigmund Freud. Upon retiring from farting he opened a biscuit factory

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