James Harkin
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It needs lubrication though.
Much like agar-agar.
That's why it was so good as a jelly because you can heat it up and it won't melt.
Good noises, guys.
1934, am I looking for?
Bridget Bardot, Shirley MacLaine, Maggie Smith.
Albert II of Belgium could have had margarine with whale oil in it.
Carl Sagan.
You know what?
It got even further than the sky.
the final frontier oh yeah yes indeed uh nasa apparently lubed its moonlanders that feels like a euphemism it does lube my moonlander it's around in some kind of game show isn't it
Yeah, but this is according to a book called Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell, and she says that they used it until the ban on whaling in 1986.
Well, I think they use their oil for buoyancy, right?
But the spermaceti ones have oils in the melon, which is in the front of their head.
And we don't know exactly what that's for, but I think there's an idea that it might be used to kind of get signals.
So like echolocation.