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Unless you’ve got a fire extinguisher or three, good luck making a wish on this birthday cake.

You probably don’t know the name Ashrita Furman, but Guinness World Records sure does. He’s Guinness’ most prolific record breaker.

Having already climbed Mount Fuji on a friggin’ pogo stick, Furman took it easy on this one, enlisting Sri Chinmoy Centre to light over 70,000 candles on a single cake, smashing the previous record by over 20,000. This was done in honor of Sri Chinmoy’s 85th birthday, who would’ve probably agreed, this record is lit.

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The cake was a simple sponge cake with a vanilla mouse. However, it was also shaped like a huge rectangle, measuring 80.5 feet long and 2 feet wide, says Guinness.

Obviously, no one was blowing this thing out, so there was a team of people with fire extinguishers to put make the wish. Don’t worry. They were CO2 extinguishers, so everyone was able to chow down afterwards.

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Wow, can you believe it, Mickey Mouse is 88. That hilarious cartoon character that has made us laugh for generations is just 12 years shy of 100.

Premiering in 1928’s cartoon classic "Steamboat Willie," in which Mickey, in the role of Willie, drove a steamboat — stop it, it’s too funny — Mickey was created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwreks. Mickey was based on an earlier cartoon called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Because Oswald was owned by Universal, Disney rebranded the character and started making his own cartoons. Oswald, I’m sure, was also very funny.

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For years, Mickey was used as an everyman like character, who’s hilarious antics totured the lives of his friend Goofy, Donald, and dog Pluto, who cannot talk, while Goofy, also a dog, can talk. Hilarious.

Now, of course, Mickey is more of a logo than anything else, but his hilarious visage is among one of the most recognizable in the world, providing millions with joy and laughter because, wow, he is just too funny.

To that end, we say “Happy Birthday, Mickey.” You keep being you.

Bryan Cranston parodies the reality show "My Super Sweet 16" to celebrate his special day when he turns 60 years old.  

This 'Cool Mom', in Florida of course, arranged for a stripper to be the entertainment for her son's 8th birthday party. That's right, the child was turning 8-years old, and she got him a stripper.

Twitter user @Saeya8 originally posted this video on Twitter with this caption about her teacher's surprise birthday party:

Threw our teacher a surprise party. He doesn't remember the last time he has a bday cake

According to the Daily Mail, this teacher is Kyle Simpler of Burleson High School in Texas.  He revealed that it's been about 10 years since he's had a real birthday cake. 

Dick Van Dyke was surprised by a few hundred people who came to sing and dance for his birthday. Most of them were dressed up as chimney sweeps like Dick Van Dyke's character Bert from Mary Poppins. 

At first he watched from a balcony like the king of exaggerated Cockney accents that he is. 


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But after a while he came down to join everyone and even sing along. 


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Kids are delightfully weird.

Iris, a 4-year-old girl from Fayetteville, Arkansas had a very unique birthday wish that came true.

She really, really, really loves CVS Pharmacy. So much so, that she asked her mom to throw her a CVS-themed birthday party.

"Ultimately she loves CVS because she knows it to be a dreamland of snacks, chocolate milks, and toys," her mom, Sarah Fortune Gill, told BuzzFeed.

Smart girl.

Party decorations included a CVS cashier stand, CVS cake and, of course, an official CVS name tag for Iris.

There were even some CVS brand adult beverages for the adults.

The local CVS heard about the party and sent over some goodies. And they sent her this message.

Happy Birthday, Iris!

Ah, you're Putin me on with this one.

For his Oct. 7 birthday, the President of the Russian Federation strapped on his skates and took to the ice like a tyrannical zamboni. Vladamir Putin played against NHL stars in Socci and scored a whopping seven goals, leading his team to a 15-10 victory.

So impressive.

Mashable has more details:

The event kicked off the fifth season of Russia's Night Hockey League, and saw Putin playing alongside international hockey legends like Pavel Bure and Vladimir Lutchenko. His team took home victory, beating their opponents 15 to 10.

The opposing team included Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu as well as Putin's close friends — tycoons Gennady Timchenko and Arkady Rotenberg. Both were slapped with Western sanctions last year for their ties to Putin in the wake of Russia's annexation of Crimea.

But Putin was undoubtedly the star of the show, and event went home with a trophy for his team's win at the end and a medal for his contribution to hockey in Russia.

There's no reason at all to question Putin's ability to score seven goals playing against hockey legends.

He's just that good.



This isn't the first time, he's shown such amazing prowess in three periods of play. Just last May, Putin bested his birthday score, by putting eight pucks into the net.

Truly the world of hockey is missing out on a player that would eclipse the great Gretzky.

Here's the highlight reel from Wednesday's game.

As if lion hunters weren't having a bad enough week, now the Terminator's after them.

Joining the growing outrage over the Minnesotan lion-hunting dentist who illegally killed a Zimbabwean lion, Arnold Schwarzenegger took to Instagram July 30. He had a few things to say about the ongoing practice of hunting big cats.

He used the hashtag #5forbigcats drawing attention to a National Geographic donation drive raising money to expand conservation efforts.

Big cats in the wild are disappearing at an alarming rate. In fact, within our lifetime, lions in the wild could disappear forever. In support of World Lion Day (August 10), we're raising money to preserve big cats—like lions—and their habitats through National Geographic's Big Cats Initiative.

Your donation, no matter how small, will make a very real difference in the lives of these majestic creatures. From building livestock enclosures to save snow leopards in Nepal to combating lion snaring and poaching in Zambia, the Big Cats Initiative provides on-the-ground conservation and education support to preserve big cat populations worldwide. 100 percent of your donation supports the fieldwork and expeditions of the Society's scientists and explorers, and our work to share their remarkable discoveries with the world.

Earlier that same day, before using his old body building accolades to define a trophy, he posted another message to big cat hunters on Instagram.



July 30 was also Arnold's birthday. The former governor of California chose to spread a little message against big cat hunting while turning 68 years old.

Appropriately, he's a Leo.

In case you forgot that Vin Diesel was a big geek, he shamelessly reminded you on his Facebook page July 19.

The big man was celebrating his 48th birthday in his own style with this gorgeous cake shaped like Dungeons & Dragons books.

Diesel has long been open about his fandom with the table top role playing game and about how it helped him shape his identity and build confidence

He also said as much to Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show.

According to a male student, "Ms. Smith" grabbed his journal and stopped him from talking to his friends as he walked into his third-period class. He said he sat at his desk, and after the tardy bell rang, she placed a chair in front of the room. Music started playing and the entire class of middle school students began yelling and telling him to sit down. It was his birthday.

The student said he sat down and Ms. Smith gave him a full contact lap dance, rotating her buttocks against him and rubbing her hands all over his body. Ms. Smith also got on her knees in front of him and placed her head between his legs. The student admitted that he slapped Ms. Smith on the buttocks a few times.

At the end of the dance, Ms. Smith wrapped her arms around the student and he gave her bottom another squeeze. She hugged him and said "I love you, baby. Happy birthday," according to documents.

Eighteen years ago today, a team of six Microsoft programmers led by Thomas Reardon unveiled the first version of Internet Explorer, one of the most widely used and hated web browsers of our time.

Note: Image courtesy of Stephanie Sicore via Flickr.

The Internet's beloved video game developer and co-founder of Valve Gabe Newell turned 50 today.