world's largest display of penises and penile parts. The collection of
280 specimens from 93 species includes samples from whales (pictured),
seals and land mammals. Exhibits are preserved in formaldehyde and
displayed in jars or are dried and hung or mounted on the museum's walls
and in display cases. The largest item on display once belonged to a
blue whale; the smallest, from a hamster, can only be seen with a
magnifying glass. The museum claims that it has specimens from elves and
trolls that cannot be seen at all since, according to Icelandic
folklore, these creatures are invisible. In July 2011, the museum
obtained its first human specimen, but the preservation process did not
go according to plan and the museum hopes to acquire a "younger and a
bigger and better" example. Founded in 1997 by a retired teacher, it
attracts thousands of visitors a year—the majority of them women—and
has received international media attention. According to its mission
statement, the museum aims to enable "individuals to undertake serious
study into the field of phallology in an organized, scientific fashion".
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Phallological_Museum>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1243:
Following their successful siege of Montségur, French royal
forces burned about 210 Cathar Perfecti and unrepentant credentes.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Monts%C3%A9gur>
1802:
The United States Congress authorized the establishment of the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in order to operate the U.S. Military
Academy (coat of arms pictured) at West Point, New York.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Military_Academy>
1962:
Flying Tiger Line Flight 739, a charter flight carrying U.S.
and South Vietnamese soldiers, disappeared without a trace, prompting
one of the largest air and sea searches in the history of the Pacific.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Tiger_Line_Flight_739>
1988:
Using pistols and grenades, loyalist Michael Stone attacked the
funeral of three Provisional IRA volunteers who had been killed in
Gibraltar ten days earlier, killing three attendees and injuring over 60
more.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milltown_Cemetery_attack>
2006:
The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to
establish the UN Human Rights Council.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Human_Rights_Council>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
damnify:
(law) To cause injuries or loss to.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/damnify>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.
--René Daumal
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Daumal>
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