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What are these weird Pringle-shaped plastic things that washed up on the beach?
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What are these weird Pringle-shaped plastic things that washed up on the beach?

Rob Beschizza
Jan 23, 2025
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On Reddit, u/SnapeSev reports the discovery of mysterious plastic disks that washed up on the Italian shore near Rogivo. They're flexible but hard and have the distinctive hyperbolic paraboloid topology of Pringles chips. The early bids: fancy packing material or biofilm substrates.

These discs are the same size (slightly smaller perhaps…

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