DID YOU KNOW:
...That Dr. Joseph Guillotin did not invite the guillotine? Rather the Persians and Italians used it in the thirteenth century as did the Scots during the Middle Ages. Dr. Guillotin saw it a more humane method of capital punishment and presented the idea to the French National Assembly, who used it all the way until 1981 when France abolished capital punishment.
...That a hogshead is a unit of measurement for volume in the United States? Commonly it’s 63 gallons, but can be as much as 140 gallons.
...That witches were never actually burned at the stake in Salem? However, 19 women were hung and one man crushed to death by heavy rocks...not fun times.
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