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When Senator Strom Thurmond turned 100 (while still in office!) The Daily Show did a skit about things that had come and gone since Strom Thurmond was in high school. The three things were:
Bat guano was an important explosive aboard 1960s space missions. After the Mercury and Gemini capsules splashed down, they had to deploy a 6-foot telescoping radio antenna. The bat guano provided a gentle explosion that locked the antenna sections together without blowing the whole thing apart.
It’s rare that they’ll give three facts in a strip that I already knew, but I already knew all three of these. I do remember being shocked when I first heard each one.
Bat caves were sought out for the guano for the manufacture of Black Powder. Actually, Potassium Nitrate, a major part of black powder, can be leached out of any animal manure, even human.
When Betty White looked like Ann Frank use to make a Aztec blend of gunpowder out of bat poop when she lived near MLK Blvd, she sold a crate to the Oxford duck hunt club for a good price!Wear Nair. Not on the dress.
eromlig over 4 years ago
I know someone who was born in 1930, the year Betty White turned 8.
I know a university that is younger than the Aztec Empire.
Take drugs and may God forgive.
[What happened to that guy from Indiana? He posted all over the place for one day, then disappeared. He had never posted before.]
pearlsbs over 4 years ago
Okay, is the MLK, Anne Frank and Betty White claim really that hard to believe?
scpandich over 4 years ago
When Senator Strom Thurmond turned 100 (while still in office!) The Daily Show did a skit about things that had come and gone since Strom Thurmond was in high school. The three things were:
Marilyn Monroe
Pan-American airline
The Soviet Union
Tossle Premium Member over 4 years ago
Im not interested in what year Betty White turned 7….But I am interested in knowing what year she turned 11.
Zykoic over 4 years ago
Betty White graduated from Oxford and did Aztec Ethnic post graduate studies at Tenochtitlan Technical. She hopes to pay off her student loan soon.
sevaar777 over 4 years ago
Very lame. Take those droppings and blow up this toon today.
therese_callahan2002 over 4 years ago
Sure, if they can get the pigeon droppings off the statues, and the guano removed from attic rafters.
Breadboard over 4 years ago
CSA used human urine to make gunpowder. Dried it produced 1 of the 3 main chemicals in gunpowder .
dlasher over 4 years ago
Bat guano was an important explosive aboard 1960s space missions. After the Mercury and Gemini capsules splashed down, they had to deploy a 6-foot telescoping radio antenna. The bat guano provided a gentle explosion that locked the antenna sections together without blowing the whole thing apart.
jpayne4040 over 4 years ago
It’s rare that they’ll give three facts in a strip that I already knew, but I already knew all three of these. I do remember being shocked when I first heard each one.
dmagoon202ii over 4 years ago
BTW, “The Wizard of Oz” is younger than “The Book of Mormon”.
johnbrown1859 over 4 years ago
You use it to shoot the shit.
Attwater's prairie chicken over 4 years ago
on this day in history on September 16th 1620 The Pilgrims sail from England on the Mayflower.
russef over 4 years ago
Hence the saying “shooting the ————“
joeatwork212 over 4 years ago
Bat caves were sought out for the guano for the manufacture of Black Powder. Actually, Potassium Nitrate, a major part of black powder, can be leached out of any animal manure, even human.
Huckleberry Hiroshima Premium Member over 4 years ago
So we gather that the Aztec empire had no institutes of higher learning.
Take care and gesundheit.
Nighthawks Premium Member over 4 years ago
so I guess it’s good luck for Betty White to have not been shot or sent to a concentration camp
Gameguy49 Premium Member over 4 years ago
Thanks Ripley! Now if I’m blocked in a cave by a rock slide I’ll know to use the bat guano to blast the entrance open.
Michael G. over 4 years ago
I am ASTONISHED!
heathcliff2 over 4 years ago
Useful facts and I smell an old industry possibly making a comeback.
stamps over 4 years ago
Coming soon – the Diary of Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty White.
yangeldf over 4 years ago
Everyone who is a fan of “Dr. Stone” already knew the bat thing
Petemejia77 over 4 years ago
When Betty White looked like Ann Frank use to make a Aztec blend of gunpowder out of bat poop when she lived near MLK Blvd, she sold a crate to the Oxford duck hunt club for a good price!Wear Nair. Not on the dress.
ekke over 4 years ago
Bat and pigeon droppings can also be used to make nitrate-based fertilizer — actually a closely related substance to gunpowder.
ScottHolman over 4 years ago
I think Betty White was born before dirt was invented.
Ricky Bennett over 4 years ago
In the words of Rip Haywire, Ka-GUANO!!!
namelocdet over 4 years ago
Betty White is actually older than sliced bread. No kidding. Look it up.
paullp Premium Member over 4 years ago
That first item reads like something Ruben Bolling would come up with.
craigwestlake over 4 years ago
That should make passing gas an explosive experience…
pbr50138 over 4 years ago
In Marine Boot Camp, in 1968, we had a DI that mentioned “bat droppings” a lot but I can’t repeat it here.