World's oldest message in bottle discovered after 132 years gone missing

It's always exciting to discover a message in a bottle, but rarely ones that are 132 years old. Found on Wedge Island in Western Australia on Jan. 21, it's the oldest message in a bottle ever discovered. The discovery breaks the last record for the oldest message in a bottle, which was 108 years old and found in Germany in 2005. Dating back to 1886, the gin bottle was tossed from the German ship Paula in the Indian Ocean as part of an oceanographic experiment. Scientific researchers hoped the bottle would help them better understand ocean currents and hence find better shipping routes.

Perth resident Tonya Illman uncovered the bottle half-buried as she was walking with a friend along the soft sand dunes, thinking it might look good in her bookcase.
"My son’s girlfriend was the one who discovered the note when she went to tip the sand out. The note was damp, rolled tightly and wrapped with string," Tonya Illman said in a statement.
"We took it home and dried it out, and when we opened it we saw it was a printed form, in German, with very faint German handwriting on it."
Illman and her husband Kym brought the bottle to the Western Australian Museum, who have published a report on the discovery. The Illmans even have produced s video about their find.