TIL that Thomas Jefferson tried for years to send a gigantic stuffed moose to a French count to counter claims that the North American climate made all animals (including people) weak and feeble

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/169149.html



Submitted January 26, 2015 at 08:57PM by key2616 http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2tq6ou/til_that_thomas_jefferson_tried_for_years_to_send/