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TIL that in 1962 a pair of con artists tried to convince a Mexican village they were Incan gods. They hired a prostitute to impersonate an Incan goddess as part of the scam. The prostitute took over the now-growing cult, and intiated a series of grisly murders and human sacrifices

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