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From a story (opens in new tab) by James Surowiecki

By one estimate, the federal Jones Act raises the cost of living by $1,800 a year for the average family in what U.S. state?

The law makes ocean shipping more expensive.

And by the way, did you know that in 1992, a shipping container holding plastic bath toys toppled overboard, releasing 28,800 red beavers, blue turtles, green frogs, and—yes—yellow duckies into the Pacific Ocean?

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Oceanographers seized on the spill and started tracking the toys to study ocean currents. Since 1992, the critters have washed ashore in Alaska, Polynesia, Australia, South America, and the Pacific Northwest. Some got stuck in Arctic ice. But the most intrepid among them accomplished the feat that had tantalized centuries of explorers: They traversed the Northwest Passage.

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