TIL the Amazon rainforest was the result and product of centuries of indigenous soil management rather than naturally formed as previously supposed.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/pristine-untouched-amazonian-rainforest-was-actually-shaped-humans-180962378/

#til #todayilearned

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1c9j4mu/til_the_amazon_rainforest_was_the_result_and/