xkcd #3132: Coastline Similarity
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Hey! A bunch of the early Cretaceous fossils on each coast seem to have been plagiarized, too!
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3132/
this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2025
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You don't remember the theory of Pangea and plate techtonics from school?
Darth Plagueis perhaps?
Ahhhhh gotcha, no worries :)
this bitch don't know bout Pangaea
You're right, you shouldn't.
But if you don't read the explanation you don't get to see the funny "citations needed" like
I didn't get it either at first. If he had cut the word off at a different point?
I don't know how you could make it clearer than just leaving off the last letter.
They literally want it spelled out for them
Because it wasn’t funny. I like XKCD but they can’t all be winners.