• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    a freaking huge industry to kill all the whales in the sea

    One of the wildest aspects of this was that they did it from fucking rowboats. I’ve never understood why the whales didn’t just leisurely swim away from that bullshit.

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      Because they didn’t know how the harpoons worked until they had been harpooned.