Andrew Hunter-Murray
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Everything needs lubrication.
If you catch a lot of different whale species, you can render down their blubber.
I mean, you literally burn the blubber and turn it into the oil.
The sperm whale stuff was very specifically good because of all these properties it has.
It helps fight rust.
It operates at high temperatures.
So there's a reason why they use that in machinery.
Good noises.
But no, it was a really big... I mean, whale oil was just used for so much stuff.
In 1935, 84% of all whale oil was used to make margarine.
A lot of your margarine would be whale.
What years?
That was in the 30s.
And even in the 60s.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
People bond.
I think Donald Trump is just younger.
No, they didn't stop using it.
That's how much was being used.