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TIL that Jean Sylvain Bailly, the mayor of Paris and a renowned scientist was executed during the Reign of Terror. While being led to the guillotine a member of the crowd mocked “Do you tremble, Bailly” and was met with the response “Yes but only from the cold”.

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