#3132: Coastline Similarity
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[Miss Lenhart is holding a pointer pointing to a wall map. The map shows South America and Africa, with the east coast of South America and the southwest coast of Africa highlighted in red.]
Miss Lenhart: People had long noticed that South America and Africa had similarly-shaped coastlines.
[A side view of the classroom. Jill and Cueball are sitting at school desks, looking at Miss Lenhart. The wall map is visible behind Miss Lenhart.]
Miss Lenhart: In the 20th century, geologists finally found the explanation:
[The same scene, with Cueball having his hands on his face.]
Cueball: Plagiaris--
Miss Lenhart: Continental drift.
Cueball: Oh.
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:Hey! A bunch of the early Cretaceous fossils on each coast seem to have been plagiarized, too!