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A woman vacationing near a beach in Germany has found a message in a bottle that was set afloat more than 100 years ago. Marianne Winkler, a retired post office worker, was walking down a beach on the German North Sea island of Amrum when she found the bottle that had been sent out by British scientist…

Sometime in 1985, a Canadian man named Jonathan wrote a note to a woman named Mary and dropped it into the ocean. Twenty-eight years later the bottle was found almost 5,000 miles away on the banks of the Neretva River. The message inside was posted on social media and in newspapers, It reads, “Mary,…

A Scottish angler set a new world record when he pulled a 98-year-old message in a bottle from the waters off the northern coast of Scotland. Authorities say the bottle that Andrew Leaper caught in his net is the oldest such message ever recovered, beating the previous record by five years. The bottle…