Why are guillotine blades angular rather than rectangular shaped?

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Guillotines chop heads. If you look at the guillotine blade, it is angled, with one side of the blade much higher than the other end. I would think the guillotine blade would be shaped more rectangular.

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i can explain this like you are a five year old. Take a butter knife and take a tomato and chop straight down into it. It’ll squash it, juices and seeds will leak everywhere. But hold the knife on an angle and slide down into the tomato and you’ll get clean cut. Concentrating the pressuring into one point of the blade on an angle is better than trying to spread the same amount of pressure across the whole blade surface.

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