THOUGHT
“Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.” – Benjamin Franklin
FACT
At any given moment, there are 1,800 thunderstorms happening on Earth. This amounts to 16 million storms each year.
HISTORY
1865 Slavery abolished in the United States
On this day in 1865, by proclamation of the U.S. secretary of state, the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, outlawing slavery, officially entered into force, having been ratified by the requisite states on December 6.
