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A fisherman from Scotland has broken a world record by retrieving a message in a bottle that was set adrift almost 98 years ago. Andrew Leaper found the bottle, one of 1,890 released by the British government in 1914 to map the seas off Scotland’s northern coast, earlier this year. Guinness World Records confirmed it as the oldest such message yet discovered. A note inside the bottle asks the finder to report the discovery, and promises the reward of a sixpence. Unfortunately for Leaper, that coin was last minted in 1970.