I’m sometimes a little late to the party, and this time I’m only 22 years behind! Back in 1992, some 29,000 bath toys went overboard off a container ship during a storm in the Pacific Ocean. Many of them were yellow rubber duckies, and they began to float around the world. Some of them floated for 15 years (which means I’m only seven years behind, maybe).
One particularly nerdy guy (I can call him that, since I’m enthusiastically writing a blog post about washed-up rubber duckies) wrote a whole science-y book about the ducks, and has a website devoted to ocean junk. His photo is on a Wikipedia page about the duckies, thus further proving that he made the big time.
And, for fun, here’s an article about a giant 50-foot-tall rubber duckie.