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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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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I didn't get it either at first. If he had cut the word off at a different point?

[–] TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I don't know how you could make it clearer than just leaving off the last letter.