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xkcd #3283: Size and Lifespan

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With their 13 years recording and performing together and two humans worth of mass, the White Stripes are sandwiched neatly between gray wolves and blue whales.

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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So that's why there are no blue whales in the Red Sea. They don't want to swim over that line!

it's because they are BLUE whales, not red whales