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TIL of the "Festival of the Steel Phallus" is an annual Japanese festival with a phallus as the central theme of the event and is reflected in illustrations, candy, carved vegetables, decorations, and a parade.

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0dpwj TIL that the 1982 Split Enz song "Six months in a leaky boat", despite being a hit in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, was denied airplay in the UK due to the song being perceived as being inappropriate during the naval action of the Falklands War.
E1YyX TIL in 1945, a man survived the atomic blast in Hiroshima, dragged himself to an air raid shelter, spent the night there, and caught the morning train to arrive at his job – in Nagasaki – where he survived yet another nuclear blast
n8X9 TIL Michael Cera played the voice of “Brother Bear” in the children show “The Berenstain Bears.”
9Yy5r TIL Emperor Nero had become so fond of a gladiator called Spiculus, that when he was overthrown in 68 AD, he wanted to die a swift death at the hands of him. But his aides could not get hold of Spiculus in time and Nero took his own life
e0eDn TIL of Peter Freuchen, who crossed 1,000 km of ice via dogsled, freed himself from an avalanche with a shiv made of his own feces, wrote 12+ books & was editor-in-chief of a women's magazine, escaped a Nazi prison despite having lost a leg to frostbite, and wrote/acted in an Oscar-winning film.