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TIL that Paris’ executioner from 1840-1847 hated his job and developed expensive vices to cope with it. To earn more money, he would charge people to watch him guillotine a sheep; he later pawned the guillotine and planned to switch to an axe. The government bought the guillotine back and fired him.

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