Great horse manure crisis of 1894 - Wikipedia

For those who don't click: it's a myth.

This is total horseshit.

See also: Dutch manure crisis

For a real crap crisis check out Australia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Dung_Beetle_Project

as presented by jared dunn to emilly cheng in HBO's documentary "Silicon Valley"

so not only was this a crisis that didn't turn out to exist, it was also a crisis that didn't turn out to exist