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116-year-old Orange On Display


Today you get to see what a 116-year-old orange looks like.
The very old orange was donate to the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Stoke on Trent in England .The pips can be heard rattling when the orange is shaken,and was kept in a golden syrup tin.The fruit is from the lunch box of a miner named Joseph Roberts fatally injured on the day he was due to eat it at a colliery in Stoke-on-Trent in 1891.
Spokeswoman Deb Klemperer said it may just be a piece of dried fruit but the story behind it made it an amazing piece for the museum.

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