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Thursday, 14th December 2006 by

Here at Yarm School Teesside, England, the pupils are performing better than most in the schools league tables. They’ve also impressively managed to get themselves featured on GSS, by drawing a picture on the roof of one of their school’s buildings… Congratulations kids, you’ve very likely created the only visible penis on Google Earth. Update: Reader Evan found this awesome (and much larger and therefore better) penis drawn on the…

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