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TIL there was a roman god of penises, and his sacrificial animal was the ass.

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DQDyj TIL that in 1990 Rupert Murdoch tried to buy the Palace of the Parliament in Romania, the biggest administrative building in the world for 1 billion dollars, his bid was rejected