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And also, in some scenarios people mock the bible for calling a whale a fish in the story of Jonah, when a whale is a mammal. However the people of the time did not distinguish animals like we do. We only started classifying animals like that in the 1800s.
I suppose before the 1800s whales were also able to swallow humans. /s
A sperm whale could theoretically swallow an adult human, but it is very doubtful that this has ever actually happened.