
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 Battle of Waterloo in 1815
The Battle of Waterloo in 1815 killed 40,000 people and left behind a lot of bones. The British were desperate for fertilizer so they started digging up the human remains to turn them into potter. There hasn't been any bones found on that sacred land since the 1820s.
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