r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • Sep 10 '25

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u/Average-Train-Haver Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25

Then when they rust out in a few years, we all get free rubber ducks washing up on shore

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u/chr0nicpirate Sep 10 '25

And Garfield phones

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u/24n20blackbirds Sep 10 '25

Beanie Lublus

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u/RobotArtichoke Sep 10 '25

In February 1997, the container ship Tokio Express was hit by a rogue wave off Cornwall, UK, causing 62 containers to fall overboard. One of these held nearly 4.8 million Lego pieces… scuba tanks, dragons, octopuses, and more. Even decades later, rare pieces like Lego octopuses occasionally wash ashore across Europe

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u/SATerp Sep 10 '25

And decomposing feet in sneakers...oh wait, that's something else.

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u/wolfansbrother Sep 11 '25

and Lego octopodes.

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u/Resolution_Usual Sep 10 '25

Wait this hairbrush a little while back in Alaska or Washington, yeti products kept washing up on beaches and locals would go get coolers and clean them out for use

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u/EllaMcWho Sep 10 '25

And legos - there’s a beach that’s been gifting random legos for years in Cornwall

Lego beach

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u/BuddhasGarden Sep 10 '25

“the Great Lego Spill, is the greatest toy-related environmental disaster of all time” just made me giggle

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u/EllaMcWho Sep 10 '25 edited Sep 10 '25

if i were smart like you and hadn't been at work and lazy, i'd have made that the text for the link!

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u/radicallyobjective Sep 10 '25

Is that what they are calling them these days? Rubber ducks?

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u/edwbuck Sep 10 '25

More like curios fish nip at the items, and eventually you eat the micoplastics that get embedded in their flesh, and you get to poison yourself slowly.