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Talia Lavin

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4 Nov, 5 tweets, 1 min read

sometimes i think about how goddamn big whales are and i am in awe

https://twitter.com/oceandiversity2/status/1323233024364851200

look how big they are

https://twitter.com/oceandiversity2/status/1323233024364851200

herman melville named the bottlenose dolphin the Huzza Porpoise bc "because he always swims in hilarious shoals, which upon the broad sea keep tossing themselves to heaven like caps in a Fourth-of-July crowd. Their appearance is generally hailed with delight by the mariner"

he also insisted that whales were fish although by 1851 they were commonly classified as mammals and had been for a long time he was just like Fuck You It's A Fish

this has been: election night whale facts

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