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3 unusual facts about Whale Oil


DEXRON

The original Dexron fluid, like its predecessor Type-A/Suffix-A, used sperm whale oil as a friction modifier.

Whale oil

Whale oil is used as an imporant energy source and researched for possible energy weapon use in the stealth action adventure videogame Dishonored.

In the novel, the preciousness of the substance to contemporary American society is emphasized when the fictional narrator notes that whale oil is "as rare as the milk of queens." John R. Jewitt, an Englishman who wrote a memoir about his years as a captive of the Nootka people on the Pacific Northwest Coast in 1802–1805, describes how what he calls train oil was used as a condiment with every dish, even strawberries.


Bevan Chuang

Chuang acknowledged to the Whale Oil blog in October 2013 that for two years she was Auckland mayor Len Brown's mistress.


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Eber Bunker

Bunker and William Raven led a second expedition to Dusky Sound in New Zealand before returning to England with seal skins, in addition to whale oil.

German auxiliary cruiser Pinguin

Solglimt and Pelagos then departed on 25 January with their 10,000 tons of whale oil to France, Pelagos reaching Bordeaux on 11 March and Solglimt on 16 March.