TIL that in 1787 Thomas Jefferson, trying to prove American wildlife wasn’t inferior, had an entire moose carcass shipped across the Atlantic to France to impress European scientists.

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/jefferson-buffon-and-the-moose
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1qyhg4t/til_that_in_1787_thomas_jefferson_trying_to_prove/