>>Speaking of the civil war, did you know that the last shot fired was fired up in the arctic long after the war had officially ended?
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>Okay, I'll bite. What were the circumstances? ( is there going to be a snare drum rim-shot to go with the answer ? <s> )

Nope. It's for real. Look up the SS Shenandoah. It was a confederate ship that was commanded to cripple the New England whaling industry. Because it was operating up in the arctic, they didn't get word that the war was over until well after it actually was, so they were still capturing and sinking whaling vessels. It fired the last shot near the Aleutian Islands.