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Legislation for the birds.
It isn't every day that the US Congress passes legislation that encourages and protects American access to bird excrement, but the Guano Islands Act did just that. It passed this week (Aug. 18) in 1856.
Obviously, some background is in order. In the mid-1800s the world's population &mdash. Read Legislation for the birds...
