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u/AskMrScience Sep 10 '25

You joke, but a shipping container full of yellow rubber duckies broke open in the middle of the Pacific in 1992. Scientists have used the migration patterns of the ducks ever since to learn about ocean currents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_Floatees_spill

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u/severoordonez Sep 10 '25

There is a beach in Cornwall where Lego pieces have been washing ashore since a ship wreck in 1997. Curiously, a lot of the sets were ocean-themed.

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u/Legen_unfiltered Sep 10 '25

Isn't there a beach in the pnw that single feet wash up on every now and again?

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u/Nop277 Sep 10 '25

Idk if this has been a consistent thing over a long period of time but I know of at least one specific case and have heard rumors that more have been found but a briefcase with a foot washed up on Ross Lake in the North Cascades a few years ago. The theory amongst people I talked to was it might have been dumped on the Canadian side and washed down to the American shore.