The world’s only taxidermied blue whale, dating back to 1865 CE, is housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. However, due to an incident involving a couple having sex inside it, the whale’s jaws are now only opened on special occasions.

    by y2flame

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    1. So every stroke the couple made the jaws move like the whale is chuckling. The visitors must have been dumbfounded

    2. The weirdest part of it to me is that for a while in the 19th century the whale’s mouth served as dining area for prominent guests and the whale could be booked as a restaurant for celebrations like weddings.

    3. theBrokenMonkey on

      There was sex being had in the whale on more than one occasion, it seems. Roughly a hundred years ago today.
      People were weird back then too…

    4. yadasellsavonmate on

      Ffs OP this is pretty instersing but because you added that part where two people got caught having sex inside it the whole post is just gonna be redditors trying to be funny talking about that. 

    5. This is in Goteborg, Sweden, my home town.

      In Sweden, Goteborg is known for puns. The word “Whale” is swedish is “Val”. Val also mean election. And therefore, the jaws of this whale is open every election day.

      The inside of the whale is made so you can walk around in it, and there are benches to sit on.

      There is alocal hearsay that there used to be a café inside the whale as well, but that is not true.

    6. Itakethngzclitorally on

      I just read about how this whale came to be and how he suffered and now it doesn’t seem so cool anymore. Humans can do awful things.

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