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TIL: About Buried Treasure, an "adult cartoon" made in the United States circa 1928/1929. It depicts the sexual adventures of Eveready Harton, who has a comically oversized phallus. Over the course of the movie; Eveready has a variety of sexual relations with a woman, a man, a donkey and a cow.

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