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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/

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[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

But if you don't read the explanation you don't get to see the funny "citations needed" like

Of course, coastlines are inanimate objects, and have no concept of plagiarism, let alone know how to perform it.^[citation needed]^