200-Year-Old Douche Found Under New York's City Hall

Monday, February 24, 2014 - 15:20 in Paleontology & Archaeology

While sifting through a 19th-century trash heap buried below Manhattan's City Hall Park, archaeologists found a dirt-caked tube that was finely carved out of bone and had a perforated, threaded screw cap. Only recently did they discover it was actually a vaginal syringe used for douching.    

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