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Swimming in a giant vat of Jello? This red hot nickel ball is living a dream.

Many of us remember the dangerously delicious Mr. Sketch markers that had a pleasant aroma associated with each color that left us coloring our nostrils more than our paper. Tommy Edison, a blind YouTuber has declided to do his best in guessing the color of each based on smell only. Being born blind his understanding of colors is only based on what he's been told, so the results are rather impressive.

Cats are known to be independent and aloof. Though this is a well known fact, most cat owners would insist that they still have a very close bond with their feline counterparts. An experiment done by Professor Daniel Mills of the University of Lincoln has performed an experiment to settle the truth on whether your cat agree would agree.

This unique restaurant uses liquid nitrogen to make truly made-to-order ice cream giving you an amazing freshly-frozen experience.

Three rescue dogs in New Zealand are learning how to drive a car, thanks to the joint efforts by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Mini Cooper and Ikon Engineering. According to the head driving coach Mark Vette, the dogs spent a few weeks to learn the basics of operating a vehicle, such as starting a car, accelerating and facing forward with their paws on the steering wheels, which will be showcased during an upcoming episode of the New Zealand current affairs program Campbell Live on December 10. For more footage, check out the video!

If uncles don't use their nephews to test the limits of the TSA in the name of homeland security, WHO WILL?

YouTuber M1cke1983sKanal demonstrates what happens to the video quality if you make a copy of a copied VHS tape and repeat the process over and over again. The video used for the test is "Fading Like a Flower" by Roxette.

A recent study conducted by researchers at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) sheds a light on what goes on inside of someone's brain while partaking in "spontaneous lyrical improvisation." The scanned image (shown left) compares the results of an A/B test during which subjects were instructed to freestyle (first row) and recite well-rehearsed verses (second row) to an identical 8-bar background track. For the full-length report, read "Neural Correlates of Lyrical Improvisation: An fMRI Study of Freestyle Rap."

If you're running on Chrome browser, check out Google's latest Experiment project that visualizes the precise location of at least 100,000 stars in our Milky Way galaxy, using various imagery and data pulled from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). For your frame of reference, there are approximately 200 to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

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