In 1913, a young man named Richard Platz was strolling along the Baltic Sea in Germany. He decided to jot a note on a postcard and send it on an adventure in a beer bottle.
That adventure lasted over a hundred years, and only recently ended when a fisherman pulled it from its watery travels.
Whether the bottle’s journey was very interesting remains unknown, but it was found near where it was first dropped, so odds are, no. Despite its uninspiring route, it has been named the oldest ever message in a bottle, unseating a 98-year old message that embarked in 1914 and was found a couple years ago.
After the bottle is on display for a little while, experts will set to work trying to decipher the message, which is currently almost entirely illegible.
(Read more at NPR)