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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/BiggieTwiggy1two3 on 2024-12-17 00:46:07+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that in 1789, during an attempted execution by breaking wheel in Versailles, a sympathetic crowd stormed the scaffold, rescued the condemned man, and burned the wheel—effectively halting the execution.