stackyFACTSProcrastination officially peaked in 1986. A Dutch admiral declared war on a tiny British archipelago in 1651, sailed away, and absolutely everyone just forgot about it. Three hundred and thirty-five years later, a historian found the loophole, and they had to sign a peace treaty for a war with zero bullets fired.
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