When Makenzie Van Eyk tossed a message in a bottle into Canada's Lake St. Clair 26 years ago, she never thought she would see it again. Van Eyk wrote the note as part of a fourth grade assignment, and it was discovered this fall by a kindergarten student now attending the same school. Van Eyk was stunned, as was her former teacher, Roland St. Pierre. "For it to survive 26 years without breaking down, it's kind of surprising," he said to CBC News.

After 17 years, the case of the "most mysterious song on the internet" has been solved. The puzzle began in 2007, when the synth-pop track was uploaded to online music forums with a request for help to trace its origin. Earlier this month, Reddit user "marijn 1412" identified the song as "Subways of Your Mind" by FEX, a little-known 1980s German band. FEX had been "absolutely oblivious to the online phenomenon," and confirmed its ownership of the song.