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TIL that the Kettle War of 1784 was a brief and bloodless conflict between the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, sparked when a single cannon shot hit only a soup kettle on an Austrian ship. The Dutch captured the vessel, and the war ended almost immediately.

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