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Besides their meat, whales have been hunted from the 1600s for three main items. What are these?

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Besides their meat, whales have been hunted from the 1600s for three main items. What are these?
posted Nov 5, 2021 by Manish Tiwari

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Baleen, commonly known as whalebone, was used for making buggy whips, parasol ribs, and corset stays.
Ambergris is a perfume ingredient from the intestine of sperm whales.
Whale oil was used as an illuminant in lamps and as candle wax, for oiling wools and to make margarine.

answer Nov 8, 2021 by Pankaj Deshmukh
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