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TIL chihuahuas used to be bred to be used as sacrifices

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kJZ0W TIL that Tom Tom Club's Tina Weymouth did not play bass on the band's studio recording of "Genius of Love". She suffered a bad hand cramp from overplaying and had to enlist the help of an assistant studio engineer, likely Kendall Stubbs from Compass Point Studios, Bahamas, where the LP was recorded.
wL9XE TIL the richest source of silver in the history of mankind was the Cerro Rico de Potosí in the Andes. Between the 16th and 18th century, 80% of the world's silver supply came out of this mine.
Y7eGW TIL about the Sierra Sounds, audio recordings from the 1970s in the Sierra Nevada mountains, thought by some to capture Sasquatch vocalizations. R. Scott Nelson, a cryptolinguist with the U.S. Navy, stated that the recordings contain a distinct language, not human in origin, and likely not faked.
xV56w TIL that the US Mint used to produce a silver three cent coin sometimes known as a "trime."
DEve TIL that when the UK declared war on Japan after being attacked in 1941, Winston Churchill notified the Japanese government with a politely written letter. He said later, “Some people did not like this ceremonial style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.”