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W71VA TIL that the oldest letter in a bottle is 132 years old and was thrown by German sailing barque Paula as part of a long-term German oceanographic experiment
Y7gQP TIL the streets were accidentally paved with gold in Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Australia in the late 19th century. In this mining town, rocks containing gold-bearing tellurites were misidentified as pyrite and discarded. Some of these discarded rocks were used as paving stones.