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It cut their heads off. I think that would pretty much kill anything.

Here's an interesting tidbit of information, you didn't die immediately after being beheaded by the guillotine. Your brain would still function for a short period of time afterward, meaning you could still hear and see after having been decapitated.

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They needed space for the crowd of onlookers at the spectacle.

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