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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/twotubes on 2025-05-05 19:54:29+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about Preserved Fish, a prominent NYC shipping merchant who sailed to the Pacific in his youth aboard a whaling vessel, became Captain Preserved Fish at 21 and amassed a fortune selling whale oil before his death in 1846.