The Watermelon War

Here's a story that I read:




On April 15, 1856, a steamboat arrived at a small, four-and-a-half square mile island off the coast of Panama. A vendor at the ferry terminal there had some watermelon available for a five cents per slice. One of the passengers, likely drunk, got into a dispute with a vendor.


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