Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
In Victorian London, 300,000 working horses generated 1,000 tons of horse dung per day. Whoa… Holy manure, that's a lot of horse waste.
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Anna Sewell practiced what she preaches in Black Beauty. Injured in childhood, she primarily got around thanks to horses. So you could say this book is kind of pet project…
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Writing ran in Sewell's family, and her mom was an author of super popular religious children's books. In fact, Sewell even helped edit some of them.
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