Idiom of the Day
stuff the ballot box
to put false ballots into a ballot box during an election
The man was arrested because he was stuffing the ballot box during the election.
Fact
Aztecs believed that the sun died every night and needed human blood to give it strength to rise the next day. So they sacrificed 15,000 men a year to appease their sun god, Huitzilopochtli. Most of the victims were prisoners taken in wars, which were sometimes started solely to round up sacrificial victims.
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