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It was really good because it didn't smoke.
What, sperm whales?
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
As a lubricant, it maintains its viscosity across a really big range of temperatures.
I read it was used in planes as well.
It got all the way up in the sky.
The bits that needed to glide over each other really quickly.
Why do they need to be so oily, whales?
Do we know?
A really nice thing about hunting avoidance in sperm whales.
In 2001, there were some newly digitized log books from whale hunters in the North Pacific.
And they found that over not that long a span of time, the whales had all learned to swim upwind of the boats that were harpooning them, which were wind powered.
So the boats would go one way and the whales would go the other way.
And the strike rate for harpoonists fell by 58%.
Back in the day, you're cutting up your whale in the sea.
No, I haven't.
Is it awake bacon?
Is it living?
Have you brought some in?