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Boy Meets World star William Daniels turns 99! Inside his record-setting 75-year marriage to famous wife

Boy Meets World star William Daniels turns 99! Inside his record-setting 75-year marriage to famous wife

Happy birthday William Daniels, aka Mr. Feeny! Everyone’s favorite strict but lovable high school-turned-college professor celebrates his milestone 99th birthday today, March 31, and he’s already expressing his gratitude for his illustrious life and career. “I think the most important thing you should know is that I am very lucky,” he told TODAY.com on his birthday. “I’ve been able to work and keep active and have a sense of purpose. I was on Boy Meets World until I was 73 years old!” He also gushes about the chance to spend his birthday with his sons and especially his wife of nearly 75 years. Take a deeper look at William and actress Bonnie Bartlett’s (legitimately historic) marriage… © Getty Images Who is Bonnie Bartlett? Bonnie Bartlett Daniels, now 96, is an actress as well, with a career that spans nearly seven decades. She made her screen debut in 1955 playing Vanessa “Van” Dale Raven Sterling in the soap opera Love of Life, a role she inhabited until 1959. She then played the recurring character of Grace Snider …

Brothers build a robot to solve Rubik’s cubes in record-setting time

Brothers build a robot to solve Rubik’s cubes in record-setting time

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A pair of brothers in the U.K. have officially broken the Guinness World Record for the fastest time solving a four-by-four Rubik’s Cube with a robot. Their DIY machine, which the brothers call The Revenger, completed the puzzle in only 45.3 seconds. That’s 33 seconds faster than the next fastest robot. If that wasn’t enough, the 45.3-second record actually breaks the 55-second record their own robot set just a few tries earlier.  Not too shabby for a pair of undergraduate students. The Revenger sets World Record for 4×4 Cube Solving Robot Matthew and Thomas Pidden built their robot over the course of 15 weeks during Matthew’s time at the University of Bristol. The robot consists of two parts: a physical body and a software component. A pair of dual webcams scan the cube, while two custom-built robot arms grab and manipulate it. A nearby laptop runs a specially coded algorithm (basically the robot’s brain) which analyzes data from the …