I’m so old, I remember telling a fifth grade teacher that the continents looked like they could fit together, and she said it was just a coincidence. In those days, there were canals on Mars, too.
There are still canals on Mars to some... lol
I had a structural geology professor in the mid 1970s who was opposed to plate tectonics from his viewpoint all orogenic activity, i.e. mountain building could be explained by geosynclines. Being a geophysics major was a “rough course” for me!