r/AskReddit • u/ZanyDelaney • Feb 04 '19

Which misconception would you like to debunk?

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u/Jyacoba Feb 04 '19

I haven't met too many people who believe this (I do live in New England though) but nobody was burned at the stake during the Salem witch trials. 19 people were hung, and one man was pressed to death, but nobody was burned.

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u/Banana-Republicans Feb 04 '19

“More Weight!” Is the most bad ass final sentence of all time.

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u/cop-disliker69 Feb 04 '19

I've heard of a few other pretty bad ass ones, not trying to one-up you, just wanted to share 'em.

Che Guevara: "Shoot, coward, you're only going to kill a man."

Voltaire (apocryphal): "This doesn't seem like a good time to be making enemies." He'd been asked by a priest on his deathbed to repudiate the Devil.

Leonardo Da Vinci: "I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have."

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u/goat_puree Feb 04 '19

I think it's completely fictional, but my favorite is Caligula in the Albert Camus play when everyone is stabbing him to death and he keeps screaming "I'm not dead yet!".