TIL of Friendly Floatees, an armada of 28,000 rubber ducks that were accidentally spilled into the Pacific Ocean in 1992 by a container ship. Researchers then used them to track ocean currents until 2007. en.wikipedia.org Submitted by oscillathor t3_z1ay36 on November 21, 2022 at 9:32 PM in todayilearned 62 comments 2,321
MidgetRodeoClown t1_ixaxips wrote on November 22, 2022 at 2:01 AM Eric Carle, author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, wrote an adorable children's book inspired by this called '10 Little Rubber Ducks'. My kids all loved that book. Permalink 10
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