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Jun 24, 2020

TIL that sperm whales can vocalize at 230 decibels, which is about 100 decibels more than a jet engine (from 100 feet away). The sound is so loud that, if close enough, it can paralyze or even kill a human by vibrating their body to death.

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May 22, 2020

TIL an 8-yr-old UK boy found a rock which was ambergris: a blob made when a sperm whale has a food irritant like squid beak, coats it in grease & vomits/poops it. Perfumeries like Chanel prize ambergris for its ability to fix scent to skin; the blob of ambergris was said to be worth about $63K US.

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Feb 16, 2020

TIL researchers found a mother dolphin who adopted a young melon-headed whale; the dolphin mother nursed the whale who often pushed his "adoptive sister" away from the mother. The whale took on bottlenose behaviors such as surfing, jumping, & socializing with other young males.

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Dec 08, 2019

TIL Great White Sharks Are Completely Terrified of Orcas. A new study shows the apex predators will flee their hunting grounds and won’t return for up to a year when killer whales pass by.

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Dec 07, 2019

TIL that Orcas are the supreme predators in the ocean and Great White Sharks are terrified of them

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Sep 20, 2019

TIL Killer whales go through menopause to avoid competition with daughters. This may shed light on why menopause exists at all.

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Aug 26, 2019

TIL Sperm whales are the loudest animal on the planet, sperm whales uses echolocation and vocalization as loud as 236 decibels

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Jul 17, 2019

TIL that Orcas will attack a blue whale, who outweigh them by several hundred ton, just for funsies.

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Jun 25, 2019

TIL of Dylan McWilliams, a 20 year old man who was bitten by a shark, attacked by a bear, and bitten by a rattlesnake - the odds of which are 893 quadrillion to one.

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Apr 08, 2019

TIL that the clicking noise sperm whales use to communicate is so loud that it can be heard by other whales thousands of miles away and can make a human body intensely vibrate to the point of death.

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