Did you know this
In the 16th and 17th centuries, before commercial
fertilizer was invented, large shipments of manure
were transported by ship. It was shipped in dry
bundles because in dry form it weighed a lot less
than when wet-but once water hit it at sea, it not
only became heavier, but when the process of
fermentation began, a byproduct which is methane gas
was formed. It didn't take long for methane to build
up below decks and the first time someone came below
at night with a lantern, BOOOOOM!
Several ships were destroyed in this manner before
somebody figured out what was happening. Once they
determined the role that manure played in the
explosions,
everybody began stamping the bundles with the term
"Ship High In Transit", so that the sailors would
know to stow it high enough off the lower decks so
that any water that came into the hold would not
touch this volatile cargo and start the production
of methane.
!
Thus evolved the term "S.H.I.T," which has come down
through the centuries and is in use to this very
day. You probably did not know the true history of
this word. Neither did I.
In the 16th and 17th centuries, before commercial
fertilizer was invented, large shipments of manure
were transported by ship. It was shipped in dry
bundles because in dry form it weighed a lot less
than when wet-but once water hit it at sea, it not
only became heavier, but when the process of
fermentation began, a byproduct which is methane gas
was formed. It didn't take long for methane to build
up below decks and the first time someone came below
at night with a lantern, BOOOOOM!
Several ships were destroyed in this manner before
somebody figured out what was happening. Once they
determined the role that manure played in the
explosions,
everybody began stamping the bundles with the term
"Ship High In Transit", so that the sailors would
know to stow it high enough off the lower decks so
that any water that came into the hold would not
touch this volatile cargo and start the production
of methane.
!
Thus evolved the term "S.H.I.T," which has come down
through the centuries and is in use to this very
day. You probably did not know the true history of
this word. Neither did I.
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