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The oldest dog in history is still alive today and will turn 30 this year!


A terrier-cross in Louisiana called Max holds the record for being the world's oldest known living dog. Born in August 1983, Max has been a part of Janelle Derouen's family ever since.

Max has also enjoyed fine health into his older years. As of a few years ago, he only had mild arthritis and some cataracts. The owner says that he never spoiled the dog, and never even fed him any food from their table.

Using the rule of thumb for translating dog years into human years; in August, he will have lived for 210 human years. Here's to hoping he gets to live many more years.

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MIT has built a robot that can assemble IKEA furniture on its own!


Roboticists at MIT have created a robot that can put a flat-pack IKEA furniture together all by itself. It has a specialized gripper hand that can grab the pieces and put the product together with no human help.

All humans need to do is feed the robot a CAD file that describes the product (eg. How many pieces, what do they look like, where the screw holes are, etc). They do not need to be instructed how to do it. Just from knowing what the parts look like, their software can decipher how something needs to be put together.

Check out a video of the robot below.

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Scientists have made chocolate with less fat and calories by infusing it with diet soda!


A group of chemists have successfully replaced half the fat found in chocolate via liquid infusion. The liquid can be fruit juice, vitamin C water, or even diet soda. Best of all, the chocolate still retains similar qualities and taste as regular chocolate.

However, the liquid you infuse the chocolate with can make the taste vary. For example, using fruit juices make the chocolate taste like a hybrid between traditional chocolate and chocolate-juice confectionary, says the lead researcher.

They chemists hope that the food industry will take their research and start making lower-fat treats that don’t sacrifice good flavor for less calories.

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Wall-E is named after Walt Disney!


Wall-E might just be one of the most adorable love stories ever created (although Up is clearly the most depressing). Wall-E is an adorable little robot who cleans up garbage on the abandoned planet formerly known as Earth. The humans had to leave the planet because of the pollution, and are now too fat to clean the planet themselves.

Anyway, Wall-E is in fact named after someone famous, and incredibly well known. You may be thinking to yourself, 'who on Earth is named Wall-E?'. Well, how about the creator of Disney, Walter Elias Disney. That's right, Wall-E is named after the founder of Disney.

What a great way to give kudos to your boss.

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If you wear this cologne during a safari, you might be attacked tigers or cougars!


I guess you could say that this cologne works all the time, 100% of the time. For some reason, the smell of Calvin Klein's Obsession for men makes wild cats go wild. Jaguars, cheetahs, ocelots, pumas, cougars, snow leopards and tigers all seem to be drawn to the cologne's smell.

Scientists actually use objects sprayed with the stuff to lure cats from wildlife reserves to a place where they can be photographed and counted. For example, in the Maya Biosphere Reserve of Guatemala, scientists have been able to estimate the jaguar population more easily thanks to Calvin Klein.

The attraction was discovered by a zookeeper at the Bronx Zoo, who went through several trials and finally discovered that Obsession for men (but not for women) drives big cats insane.

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