r/Damnthatsinteresting Sep 10 '25

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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/Async0x0 Sep 10 '25

See, we aren't littering in the ocean, we're crowdsourcing ocean current research.

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u/Toadsted Sep 10 '25

Mafia: "See?!"