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TIL that on May 26, 2022, the last convicted Salem witch was officially exonerated, 329 years after she had been found guilty, after pressure from schoolchildren who discovered the anomaly which had excluded Elizabeth Johnson Jr's name from the Massachusetts legislature act exonerating all others.

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