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You Can Now Take Home a Real Japanese Manhole Cover for National Sewer Day

September 10
You Can Now Take Home a Real Japanese Manhole Cover for National Sewer Day

On September 10, while most of Japan goes about the ordinary business of living without thinking too hard about what happens after a toilet flushes, the country will observe one of the stranger entries on its crowded cal

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