Oldest known message in a bottle found on beach in western Australia

The oldest known message in a bottle was found in January on a beach on the western coast of Australia, 132 years after it was tossed into the ocean, according to the Western Australian Museum.The bottle, part of a German experiment in the 19th century, was found half-buried in the sand roughly 180 kilometers north of Perth by Tonya Illman, after her son's car became bogged in the sand."It just looked like a lovely old bottle so I picked it up thinking it might look good in my bookcase," the Perth woman said in a statement released by the museum on Tuesday."My son's girlfriend was the one w…READ FULL ARTICLE