After the guillotine was invented, the story goes, the inventor wasn’t happy with its performance using a horizontal blade. A prominent French individual, whose hobby was watchmaking, suggested that an angled blade would cut much better, and the blades were replaced. The amateur watchmaker was Louis XVI.
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Within the past 200 years, the most efficient entity for murdering people has been their own governments:
•Mao – 45 million
•Stalin – 40 million
•Hitler – 17 million (total holocaust)
•Lenin – 12 million
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