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Rasputin's severed member sits in a Russian jar

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If you thought the mad monk's life was wild, wait until you hear about his post-mortem anatomy. A wildly oversized, preserved appendage sitting in a jar at a St. Petersburg erotica museum is widely claimed to be his. Even in death, the man is physically defying logic, though biologists suspect it's actually just a sea cucumber.

Rasputin's severed member sits in a Russian jar
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