See this?
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24389128-13762,00.html
Mystery lump that looks a bit like and enormous cheese turns up on a beach in New Zealand. Locals think it might be ambergris from a whale, thus making the lump worth over £5,000,000.
The locals start a gold rush 🙂
http://video.stuff.co.nz/assets/stuff_982091_Mystery_300k.asx
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Thanks to the educational benefits of last nights Futurama I already know what ambergris is (and also that if a whale swallows your watch you should use rancid fish to induce vomiting in said whale to get your watch back….that probably obly works with waterproof watches though!)
This has been a very educational post!
how do they know it weighs 500 kg i wonder?
That’s just around the corner from my house! I was tempted to take a walk down there to point and laugh at the idiots hacking chunks out of it, but had some procrastination to catch up on. The prospectors/fools did save the local council thousands in clean up costs though.
And here’s somebody selling some…
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Art/Other/auction-177884001.htm
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