Message In A Bottle Washes Up In New Jersey After 148 Years | News World

You never know what you’re going to find in the sand when you head to the beach, and a woman in New Jersey recently stumbled across a message in a bottle that may have set a world record after washing up on the shore close to 150 years after it was tossed into the ocean.

The Greek philosopher Theophrastus (a student of Aristotle) is widely credited with inventing the concept of a message in a bottle when he purportedly used that method to test out his theory that the Mediterranean Sea flows into the Atlantic Ocean all the way back in 310 B.C. (although there’s no concrete proof that was actually the case).

That particular method was also harnessed by a number of people (including Benjamin Franklin) attempting to understand how oceanic currents flow prior to the advent of technology that made it a bit easier to unlock those mysteries, and there have been a handful…

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