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Whales Don’t Spray Water Out of Their Blowholes and Other Interesting Whale Facts (2015x91)

Air date: Jul 29, 2015

→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/todayifoundoutsubscribe →Why Do Superheroes Wear Their Underwear on the Outside?: http://bit.ly/1Ow7J0K Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from Today I Found Out: The Story Behind the Legend (of Zelda) http://bit.ly/1RTQ08P Why Toilet Paper is White http://bit.ly/1SE87uL In this video: Myth: Whales spray water out of their blowholes. Contrary to what you may have seen in such movies as Pixar’s otherwise extremely entertaining Finding Nemo, whales don’t spray water out of their blowholes. Further, the whale’s trachea doesn’t connect to the esophagus of the whale; so when Dory and Marlin went down the whale’s throat, in real life, they’d have simply been eaten. Want the text version? http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/10/whales-dont-spray-water-blowholes/ Source/Further reading: http://science.howstuffworks.com/zoology/marine-life/whale1.htm http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/but-not-simpler/2013/06/19/costanza-and-the-whale-could-you-make-a-blowhole-in-one/ http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/whales/anatomy/Blowhole.shtml http://www.oceanicresearch.org/education/wonders/spermwhales.htm http://thewhaletrail.org/how-to-spot-a-whale http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_whale http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowhole_%28anatomy%29