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The Kent County Animal Shelter has added another 24-hour microchip scanning station to reunite lost pets with their owners.

You know those bar codes you see on everything at the store? Well, those are 40 years old as of today. Someone bought a pack of chewing gum at a Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, this very day. It was the first purchase of an item to be scanned into a cash register using the Universal Product Code.