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TIL that during the annual Aztec festival of Xipe Totec, human captives had their hearts cut out, following which they were completely skinned. Priests then wore their skins for a period of 20 days.

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og6A TIL that Chinese mathematician Yitang Zhang could not get an academic job upon graduating, having to work as an accountant and a delivery worker for a New York City restaurant. He later went on to solve a math problem that had been unsolved for 150 years and won a MacArthur Genius Grant
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