By Erika Owen
June 8,2015; 8:00AM,EDT
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Turns out there's a lot more than broken plastic shovels and long-lost car keys found on the world's beaches. United Kingdom-based company Barrington Freight pulled together a list of 30 oddball items that have shown up on coasts around the world. Here are six of our favorites:
57 Love Letters
After Hurricane Sandy, a bundle of letters were found that were sent from a woman to her boyfriend during WWII. The person who discovered the correspondence managed to find the sender and return her messages. Cue the collective “aww."
60,000 Nike Shoes
Well, not all of them have washed up quite yet. A massive number of sneakers were lost at sea during a hurricane in 1990. Oceanographers used the remaining floaters to track ocean currents. Turns out the same thing happened with bundles of plastic beavers, frogs, turtles, and ducks in a similar situation in 1992.
One Harley Davidson Motorbike
Not only did the bike survive a Japanese tsunami, but it traveled over 4,000 miles to Canada, arriving on a beach in its original container. In a surprising turn of events, the owner was contacted through the license plate.
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