• @herrvogel
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    1 year ago

    couple hundred shits over seas for dirt cheap

    All typos aside, people really did make big money hauling literal shit across the Atlantic. Guano trade was no small business. They scooped up ships full of that stuff from random islands in the Caribbean and sold it to farmers in Europe and Americas as fertilizer.

    • @glimse
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      11 year ago

      As far as natural fertilizers go, guano is the good shit