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The story that inspired Moby Dick, actually.
Not the cannibal side of it, but the whale that inspired it.
Yeah, it was these pirates, and basically they were whalers, and they were not good people.
They stole 200 Galapagos tortoises, so they kind of had it coming.
Not the Galapagos tortoises.
They're kind of the reason there's an extinction crisis.
Did they make ashtrays out of them?
They played soccer with them and ate them.
Played soccer.
Oh, my goodness.
They, like, used them as, like, ha-ha funny.
Right.
But anyway, this big Moby... I think they would hurt your foot kicking a Galapagos.
Yeah.
This big Moby Dick whale screwed up their ship, and then they ended up being stuck at sea for about three months, and then they ended up eating each other.
Of course you would.
And then, well, they started drawing straws, but they didn't have straws, so they drew finger bones.
It was the whole thing.
We should have saved this for Unpredictable History.
Yes!