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TIL there’s a festival in Japan called ‘Kanamara Matsuri’ or 'festival of the steel phallus’. Legend has it a woman with a demonic vagina destroyed all this towns penis’s until a blacksmith made a steel penis that destroyed the vaginas teeth. Now once a year they celebrate everything penis like.

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