A shipping container falling off a cargo ship in 1992 spilled 28,000 rubber ducks and other bath toys into the Pacific, and oceanographers spent the next 20 years tracking where they washed ashore to map the world's ocean currents. - Space Daily
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A lost shipment of bath toys became an accidental oceanographic instrument, revealing decades of currents and gyre patterns that scientists couldn’t observe any other way.
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