Episode 448: Alcatraz Part I - Bird Is the Word
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Canary Birds by Robert Stroud
There was so much bird shit that the birds started getting sick and dying from bacterial overgrowth. Stroud consulted a book from 1869 called Canary Birds to see if he could find a solution in this book. Author Mary Wood gave some of the dumbest possible cures, like giving Canary sponge cake soaked in sherry to prevent disease. She also suggested a diet of spiders mixed with drinking water marinated by rusty nails.
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