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Bottle of salt from before the dinosaurs has an expiration date of 2019

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Feb 27, 2026
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Someone spotted something strange on a container of Himalayan pink salt. The label says the salt was “formed by the primal sea more than 250 million years ago.” It also says it expired in 2019. Salt that has existed since before dinosaurs somehow decided it was finally time to go bad just a few years ago.

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