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Great Salt Lake whale myth

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• ... that in 1888, a sensational story claimed that a British scientist, James Wickham, introduced two whales to the Great Salt Lake in an attempt to start a whale oil industry?

• Source: https://www.hjnews.com/news/local/the-beehive-archive-a-whale-of-a-tale-from-early-slc-newspapers/article_6c92436d-050b-5fd7-a2e5-57966dd2e7cd.html

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Tropical Storm Chris (2024)

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OhHaiMark (talk) 17:09, 29 August 2024 (UTC).