Plants like brown things so it stands to reason.

Sorry for seriousposting 99percentinvisible.org/episode/guan...

Finally an answer to the question I always casually ask myself every time I use fertilizer - uhh, bat guano? How the fuck are they getting that at an industrial scale? Bat farms?

It was mostly bird guano and it was like a 20-year period of colonizing uninhabitable islands to get that sweet, sweet bird shit, and then they figured out how to manufacture fertilizer. The podcast covers the end of the period a bit, as I recall.

Wild lmao

Imagine how much bird shit can pile up after 10,000 years of only birds living on a rocky outcropping and then people show up and harvest it like they’re digging up peat to make scotch.

The grass is always greener Where the dogs are shitting ...as someone once told me

Very short leap to "oh my god my invention has killed most of the young men of Europe. I must fund a Peace Prize to ease my guilt"

fertilizer was actually not invented it was discovered by cowboys with scat fetishes

first guy to invent fertiliser was playing a totally wicked prank on his neighbour's farm

Bro's shit backfired