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0d4n5 TIL only 6,800 Americans were killed in action over the course of the entire 8 years of the Revolutionary War
vPBkL TIL that 167 years ago, Senator Brooks beat Senator Sumner nearly to death on the Senate floor.
vPBjr TIL: there was only one civilian casualty during the Battle of Gettysburg. After fleeing to her sisters house from the initial fight, a stray bullet hit Mary Wade while she was baking bread for the retreating Union army