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A message in a bottle that washed up on the shore of Ocean City, New Jersey might be a Guinness World Record holder. The bottled-up message appears to have been sent on August 6th, 1876. Opening it up, Smyth Murphy discovered a business card from W.G. & J. Klemm Gents’ Furnishing Goods in Philadelphia, along with a note “suggesting it was dropped from a boat called ‘The Neptune’ in Atlantic City” 148 years ago. If authenticated by Guinness, this would surpass the previous “oldest message in a bottle” record of 131 years, which was discovered in 2018.