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Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life S01E04 Fall

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- Is that a whale? - That is a whale.

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Whales were very important to Nantucketers.

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He plunges his barbed harpoon into the whale's back.

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They then cut the tail tendons, immobilizing the whale.

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with an explosive that detonates once inside the whale.

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Nantucketer Christopher Hussey killed the island's first sperm whale in 1712.

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From then on, sperm whales became the specialty of Nantucket whalers.

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In addition to oil for lamps, whales were used for food,

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I feel terrible. I was gonna take you to the Whaling Museum.

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from the head matter of sperm whales began in America around 1748.

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Well, by now, the whale is spouting buckets and buckets and buckets of blood.