Today I Learned…

We all know that Johnny Appleseed was a real person — John Chapman, a missionary who trekked all over Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana during the first half of the 19th century. But did you know that those trees that he planted so carefully were mostly gone by the 1920s? During Prohibition, most of them were chopped down by the FBI so that people couldn’t turn those lovely apples into hard cider. (From Reader’s Digest, September 2019, “Big Apple Facts, And Small Ones Too”.)