Tickled Pink

2009, 20 minutes

The French Revolution was a time to experiment

As the guillotine came into widespread use in Revolutionary France, scientists sought to find out what the sensation of having one's head cut off felt like, but there was no way of knowing as anyone with experience was dead. So they sought a man who could speak at astonishing speed, with the hope that post-decapitation, he could just about blurt out how it all felt ...

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