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What's more interesting is, beaver castor sacs also used as a strawberry and vanilla flavour substitute, approved by FDA.

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[โ€“] shittydwarf@piefed.ca 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

98% of Moby Dick was concentrated on the old ass whaling industry, and based on this I believe it was actually whale phlegm

[โ€“] village604@adultswim.fan 11 points 3 days ago

It's really neither. It happens in the intestines to help coat and pass beaks and other inedible pointy stuff.

So it's actually whale shit.