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>Let's see if you really know your sh--.
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>When people ask what you learned today ...
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>Manure... An interesting fact
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>Manure : In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be
>transported by ship and it was also before the invention of
>commercial fertilizers, so large shipments of manure were quite common.
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>It was shipped dry, because in dry form it weighed a lot less than
>when wet, but once water (at sea) hit it, not only did it become
>heavier, but the process of fermentation began again, of which a by
>product is methane gas of course. As the stuff was stored below
>decks in bundles you can see what could (and did) happen.
>Methane began to build up below decks and the first time someone
>came below at night with a lantern, BOOOOM!
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>Several ships were destroyed in this manner before it was determined
>just what was happening
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>After that, the bundles of manure were always stamped with the
>instruction ' Stow high in transit ' on them, which meant for the
>sailors 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.
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>Thus evolved the term ' S.H.I.T ' , (Stow High In Transit) which has
>come down through the centuries and is in use to this very day.
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>You probably did not know the true history of this word.
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>Neither did I.
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>I had always thought it was a golf term.
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>((perhaps also the derivation of the term "poop deck"))
