eli5 why is the guillotine blade diagonal?

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I’m guessing bc of friction

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originally, the blade WAS straight. ut they quickly realized that it would have to be raised and lowered multiple times. they added weights to the blade to make it fall faster.

then, they tried the angled blade, similar to how a curved axe would cut a round tree, and et voila! a speedy death machine!!

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