TIL that the USA in 1856 enacted a law that allowed any USA citizen to take over an island if the island was full of bird shit....and unoccupied. ushistoryscene.com Submitted by LMonteSlim t3_11ymm68 on March 22, 2023 at 3:32 PM in todayilearned 16 comments 166
redditjunky2025 t1_jd9askx wrote on March 22, 2023 at 7:23 PM This is bat shit crazy. Permalink 3 217flavius t1_jd9d09m wrote on March 22, 2023 at 7:37 PM This is where the expression came from. As in you'd have to be batshit crazy to do something like that. Permalink Parent 2
217flavius t1_jd9d09m wrote on March 22, 2023 at 7:37 PM This is where the expression came from. As in you'd have to be batshit crazy to do something like that. Permalink Parent 2
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