217flavius t1_jd9d09m wrote
Reply to comment by redditjunky2025 in 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. by LMonteSlim
This is where the expression came from. As in you'd have to be batshit crazy to do something like that.
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