› added 8 years ago

202

TIL that 60-70% of all the deforestation in the Amazon is due to clearing land for cattle ranching

Read more data.mongabay.com

via ift.tt

WkB8o TIL President Ulysses S. Grant's wife had control of four slaves during the American Civil War given by her father. After the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, she chose to free them even though the proclamation did not apply to her state of Missouri.
Axd4 TIl that Dwight D. Eisenhower was named the Supreme Allied Commander of Europe despite never having experienced actual combat himself
L5nr TIL the Ten commandments quoted by most people aren’t the ten commandments carved into the stone tablets by Moses according to the Bible. The actual Ten Commandments contain gems such as “Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk” and “The first offspring of every womb belongs to me.”
m1kVE TIL that American chemist Gilbert Lewis was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry every year from 1922 until 1946 but never won it. His death in 1946 may have been a suicide.
W7Ggo TIL absinthe, a spirit made with wormwood, has been banned across Europe in the early 20th century because of association with mental illness