stackyFACTSBefore society decided to add public execution to a simple spelling challenge, the Victorians kept it painfully tame. It originated as a harmless pencil challenge about guessing beasts and fishes, completely devoid of the morbidly drawn stick figures slowly suffocating on a scaffold.
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