What Connects Bones, Bird Poop, and Toxic Green Slime? Hint: Without It, Half of Us Wouldn't Be Alive Today
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The History of the Humboldt Current
The British started scavenging bones from everywhere, including Egyptian pyramids. And they ground up everything they found, from humans to mummified cats. They pretty much pretty soon ran out of bones. But luckily before the British had entirely wiped the battlefields of Europe clean and a few pyramids as well, something else had been going on. In the early 1800s, Alexander Humboldt, who was a famous scientist and explorer, he sailed along the western coast of South America. He ended up near what's now Peru. The birds needed a place to nest and to poop, obviously. And they did so on these islands off of Peru where it really never rains. It's
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