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Oldest message in a bottle found on Western Australia beach

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'World's most expensive vodka' bottle stolen from Copenhagen bar

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Message in a bottle from 1981 found on Georgia beach

RyanBurchettfoundamysteriousmessageinabottlefrom1981onthebeachinLittleSt.SimonsIsland,Georgia,nearly36yearstothedayafteritwaswritten.He’dbeenoutfishingwithfrien

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The best way to preserve half-drunk bottles of wine

A growing number of wine-preservation systems, from $10 plastic pumps to $300 devices, promise to give oenophiles days or weeks to drink a bottle. But do any of them work?