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xkcd #3258: Plate Flip

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It's great for exfoliating your skin, bones, houses, cities, landscape, etc.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3258/

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[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

They knew about continental drift before that. They just didn't know the mechanism.