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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/HamFistedSurgeon on 2024-05-24 23:57:17+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that Aztecs had 18 festivities each year, 17 of which included human sacrifices. Apart from extraction of the heart, they used variety of other methods; drowning, starvation, decapitation, burning, bludgeoning, throwing from heights, forced gladiatorial combat and shooting with arrows.