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Blue whale skeleton at New Bedford museum still oozing oil

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201 points geox | 1 comments | 17 Oct 24 23:09 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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phendrenad2 ◴[19 Oct 24 17:23 UTC] No.41889111[source]▶
I thought whale oil was what you get when you boil the fatty tissue of the whale. Why would the skeleton have any oil in it?
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phendrenad2 ◴[19 Oct 24 22:46 UTC] No.41891375[source]▶
I'm sorry whoever I offended enough to downvote this. I didn't realize whale skeletons were a touchy subject. I'm not an American so I don't know.
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1. mikestew ◴[20 Oct 24 17:14 UTC] No.41896888[source]▶
I’m confident that for every grumpy down voter that thinks they’re on Reddit, there a few others that will upvote an honest question that is getting downvoted to counteract. So Ms. Grumpy Redditor had the opposite of the desired effect.