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TIL that immediately before his execution on January 31, Guy Fawkes (perpetrator of the gunpowder plot) fell from the scaffold where he was to be hanged and broke his neck, thus avoiding the agony of being hanged, drawn and quartered. His lifeless body was nevertheless quartered.

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