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View submission: xkcd: Snake Facts
He painted a huge fucking snake on the map in the style of a distribution map (where a species occurs), but in this case it's a single gigantic snake.
Being large enough to put Jormungandr (the world serpent in Norse mythology) to shame, it is also funny that the snake is just 60 years old. Creatures the size of continents have usually been in existence since time immemorial, or before time began. Sometimes created by accident at the dawn of time. Not born in the 1950's anyway.
Comment by DarrenGrey at 23/07/2014 at 08:12 UTC
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This one came from 1950s nuclear testing gone wrong :)
Comment by [deleted] at 23/07/2014 at 08:04 UTC
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Usually. Not always.