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The Guillotine

It was suggested by Joseph Ignace-Guillotin in order to make the process of decapitating people easier during the French revolution....and so that it wasn't only nobles who had the privilege to chop off heads.

It was last used in the 1970s before it got banned in 1981.

At one point in time the guillotine was so famous, nobles kept it on their dinning tables to slice bread and children were given miniature versions of it to play with as toys (and to behead rodents and dolls).