Dangerous addiction

Chinese teen

China's youngest plastic surgery addict is a 16-year-old girl, who claims to have undergone 100 invasive cosmetic procedures in three years to "improve" her looks. Zhou Chuna, a Chinese influencer, has built her online career by documenting her extreme transformation from a normal-looking girl to a doll-like idol. Despite claiming to have experienced severe side-effects due to plastic surgery, she says it's all worth it.

Zhou Chuna, a Chinese influencer, has built her online career by documenting her extreme transformation

Zhou tells her online followers that she used to be ugly, describing her eyes as too small, and her nose as too big. She reminisces about how people made fun of her appearance and made her do the hardest tasks on class clean-up duty, while the pretty girls always had it easy. So, at 13, Chuna started threatening her parents to pay for procedures. When she noticed an improvement in how people treated her, there was no looking back. From fillers to ear cartilage rhinoplasty and liposuction, she has done it all, spending nearly $6,20,000 on all surgeries. She tells her fans, "When I wake up, I know I will be more beautiful. I am never afraid of pain, I am afraid of ugliness."

‘You are fatter than an elephant'

Calling someone an elephant may soon be a compliment as a new study has found that the body fat percentage of elephants is much lower than in humans. Indiana University's Daniella Chusyd and her team, who conducted the research on obesity in captive elephants, strapped jumbo-sized fitness monitors to the ankles of 35 female Asian elephants and nine male Asian elephants. Apparently, since baby elephants get enough exercise in zoos, they maintain a relatively low body fat percentage, the study suggests.

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French influencer promotes buying ‘blocks of cardboard' instead of real books

French Instagram superstar Maddy Burciaga has come under fire for allegedly promoting fake expensive books as the perfect props to decorate one's home. In an Instagram story, the 27-year-old showed off fake copies of Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent books.

She added that the real books are quite expensive and that if you're not actually interested in reading the books, you can just get these blocks of cardboard that look like books, for a fraction of the price. She even put it on sale only to face legal action for the counterfeit.

Dress up with wrappers

A Japanese art student has created a mantua-inspired life-sized dress exclusively out of thousands of "Happy Tour" plastic senbei (traditional Japanese rice crackers) wrappers.

Since the designer who is known for meticulous details, couldn't source the necessary 4,000 individual plastic wrappers himself, he asked for help from friends and family, who were more than happy to assist him by feasting on the tasty treats.

Bernie's mittens raise Rs 13 cr for charity

Senator Bernie Sanders' quirky memes across social media have in fact helped raise $1.8 million (Rs 13 crore approx) for charitable organisations in Vermont. The merchandise is available on his campaign website and had the first run sold out in 30 minutes.

Will you go hunting for Bigfoot?

Oklahoma Republican House member Justin Humphrey has demanded issuing a state hunting license and tag for a mythical, ape-like creature in the forested Ouachita Mountains, where a Bigfoot festival is held. He feels it could help boost tourism.

These smart glasses claim to cure myopia

Japan's Kubota Pharmaceutical Holdings have developed smart glasses that, if worn just an hour a day, can allegedly cure myopia. It projects an image from the lens onto the retina to correct the refractive error nearsightedness.