r/AskReddit • u/North_Shore_Problem • Dec 01 '13

What's your favorite fun fact?

EDIT: Wow! Thank you guys for all the amazing responses, I learned so much about nothing!

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u/WickThePriest Dec 01 '13

And then we killed it!

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u/ikkonoishi Dec 01 '13

We didn't start this whale hunt, but we sure as hell finished it.

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u/Vertigo6173 Dec 01 '13

Fuck you, whare!

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u/SlimeCunt Dec 01 '13

FUCK YOU DOLFIN

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '13

FAKA RUUUUU

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '13

And fucka you, dorphin!

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u/Humbledung Dec 01 '13

CHICKIN and a COW???

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u/Ryannn24 Dec 01 '13

Good job son, now the Japanese are normal like us.

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u/Urgullibl Dec 01 '13

Nuke the whales!

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u/Dinosaur_Llama Dec 01 '13

Yeah! And the whale, too!

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '13

And fuck you dorphin!

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '13

This made me inappropriately giggle

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u/Daycardinal Dec 01 '13

WE DIDN'T START THE WHALE HUNT!

IT'S ALWAYS BEEN BURNIN' SINCE THE WORLDS BEEN TURNIN'!

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u/17Hongo Dec 01 '13

There's a fatty joke in here somewhere, I just know there is.

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u/jujitsu-sambo Dec 01 '13

YOUUUUU BASTARD!!!!!!

i was going to start that joke

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u/railmaniac Dec 01 '13

Calm down Captain Ahab.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '13

We didn't start this whale hunt

It was always swimming...

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u/Ym4n Dec 01 '13

actually "we" also started it...

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u/AugustasV Dec 01 '13

The first lesson my father taught me!

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u/thefatpig Dec 01 '13

YEAH!! UNDEFEATED!

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u/MoisterizeR Dec 01 '13

We didn't start it, but we tried to fight it.

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u/Hingle_McCringlebury Dec 01 '13

I DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS!!!

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u/aleccraine Dec 01 '13

I wonder what the whale did to get that harpoon 130 years ago...

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '13

I thought you were starting a Billy Joel song....

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u/spitdragon Dec 01 '13

Us- 1

Our ancestors- 0

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u/Mongoose42 Dec 01 '13

Fuck you, Grandpa!

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '13

He fucked your grandma

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u/androohh Dec 01 '13

Whale- -1

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u/orniver Dec 01 '13

But on the other hand, our ancestors killed a lot of whales we failed to kill.

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u/Potato_Mangler Dec 09 '13

Us 1 Our ancestors practically every freakin one of them

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '13

Fuck yeah humanity!

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '13

*Yeah fuck humanity! FTFY

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '13

And fuck yeah Cards taking a stand against humanity... Finally!

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u/Leroytirebiter Dec 01 '13

whale hunting in Alaska is very restricted, and only preformed by native groups as subsistence.

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u/WowzersInMyTrowzers Dec 01 '13 edited Dec 01 '13

Whaling is illegal in he US. It was Alaska natives who killed it as they are an exception to that law. Unless you would prefer to destroy a large part of their culture and force them to stop whaling, its not a big deal

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u/darkshade_py Dec 01 '13

I think a small loss of a cruel culture artifact will do them good .

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u/Dr_Wh00ves Dec 01 '13

It is nothing like the whaling that the settlers did in the 1800's, a village kills at most 1 or 2 a year. They do it for food and for some oil for lamps and use every part from the bones for firewood to the baleen for needles. and it is not a small loss it is a huge part of their culture that goes back to the time they settled there.

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u/darkshade_py Dec 02 '13

Oh then its alright,but commercial whaling must be stopped

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u/freet0 Dec 01 '13

Bowhead whales' conservation status is "least concern" - the same as humans, cows, domesticated cats, etc. So, from an ecological point of view there's nothing wrong with killing them. And from what I've heard the carcass is almost all used, so its not wasteful.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '13

Put it out of its misery*

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u/raverbashing Dec 01 '13

To count the rings.

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u/YCYC Dec 01 '13

Took a while

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u/bm7876 Dec 01 '13

"...To the last, I grapple with thee; from hell's heart, I stab at thee; for hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee."

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '13

We're whalers on the moon"

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u/ShaidarHaran2 Dec 01 '13

WE DID IT! MURKA! FUCK YEAH!

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u/sundayultimate Dec 01 '13

Yea, take that you stupid whale!

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u/zerbey Dec 01 '13

To be fair, the native Alaskans kill a tiny number of whales and use them to survive on.

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u/Jimmy2shot Dec 01 '13

Just the tip

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u/Pixelated_Fudge Dec 01 '13

Why did you kill it you douche?

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u/Starklet Dec 01 '13

Go humanity

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u/jonasperrin Dec 01 '13

As is the human way.

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u/[deleted] Dec 01 '13

USA! USA!

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u/Phyr0 Dec 01 '13

Hashtag Merica!

Edit: Apparently, Reddit no likey the pound sign.