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TIL Brooklyn used to have a huge elephant brothel until it burned down (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephantine_Colossus

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There were a handful of these made at the time and now there is only one remaining, in Margate NJ. I have a tattoo of it and it looks just like that one except without the flames.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I've looked out that elephant's butt.