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TIL Chunk from the Goonies is now a Lawyer.

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b6RKj TIL: People accused of being witches during the witch trials in colonial New England weren't' burned at stake, they were hanged. One man who was accused of Witchcraft died by pressed to death by heavy stones, another was jailed.
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