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TIL that the US and Britain nearly went to war in 1859 because an American farmer shot a pig and then refused to pay for it. The US sent 461 men to “make a Bunker Hill of it” and Britain sent 2,140 men and five warships before President Buchanan calmed everyone the heck down.

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