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What whale oil is used for now

“[Whale oil], because of its inherent resistance to extreme cold, is used now only in the most specialized machinery of, appropriately enough, sea and space exploration: deep-diving subs, Mars and lunar rovers and the Hubble Space Telescope. ”

- Watching Whales, NY Times

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