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TIL that in an experiment conducted(on a guillotined man) by Dr. Gabriel Beaurieux in 1905, he quite reliably proved(to his satisfaction) that a severed head (that of convicted murderer, Henri Languille) remains conscious and alert for some time after being separated from a body.

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