Yemeni fisherman hit jackpot after finding million-dollar-worth ‘whale vomit’
Published date: 17 June 2021 18:57 BST
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Last update: 3 years 5 months ago
A group of Yemeni fishermen hit a jackpot when they found a sperm whale corpse, carrying 127 kgs of ambergris, which they sold for $1.5m, changing the lives of more than 1000 families in their district
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