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TIL that Ulysses S. Grant incurred more Union loss of life than was inflicted on the Confederacy during his Eastern Campaigns of the American Civil War.

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57kD TIL a man convicted of 544 murders, which included 24 fetuses he cut out of pregnant women was tortured for 3 days, broken on the wheel and quartered while still alive.
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