China's first plus-size boyband

Tired of watching pictureperfect boybands like BTS well China just gave the music world something more ordinarylooking Instead of the animelooking Asian boybands Chinarsquos first chubby fivemember boyband Produce Pandas resemble cute pandas and look quite huggablePanda Produce membersOtter DING Mr 17 Cass and Huskyare all aged between 22 and 31 and gave up steady jobs to pursue musicldquoThis is a plussized allsinging alldancing idol band has never been seen beforerdquo Bandrsquos lead dancer Mr 17 said Panda Produce membersOtter DING Mr 17 Cass and Huskyjust look like average Joes and thatrsquos apparently by designAged between 22 and 31 theyrsquod be considered veterans by industry standards They were selected out of 300 candidates and were put through a gruelling regimen for several months before their debut last summer The hard work paid off as their single lsquoLa la larsquo was a massive success both in China and abroad They did have to give up their steady jobs and some even risked disownment by their familiesldquoMy family know I love dancing and singing but they doubt at my age and with my overweight body shape that I can ever succeedrdquo Mr 17 the oldest lsquopandarsquo said ldquoI want to prove to my family that I canrdquoProduce Pandas is considered a true anomaly in China as most boybands there pretty much adhere to the same unattainable beauty standards But their point of their existence is to inspire others that they donrsquot need chiseled physiques and perfect hair to make dreams come trueThe curious case of Berniersquos mittensThe sight of mittenclad maskwearing Senator Bernie Sanders sitting on a chair at the inauguration of Joe Biden has sparked a wave of creative memes the world over The picture was clicked by veteran photographer Brendan Smialowski who along with Sanders is having a good laugh as the memes hashtagged BernieSandersmittens trickle in on social mediaToo cute to eatPicsMinmin Chang FacebookA Taiwanese selftaught cook Minmin Chang recently shared photos of her detailed and incredibly adorable fishshaped dumplingsChang who apparently teaches watercolour painting and loves cooking in her spare time shared detailed instructions on how to make these realisticlooking dumplings filled with a mixture of minced pork shrimp water chestnut garlic and cilantroThese are made by hand using simple tools like a straw a chopstick and a pair of scissorsWorldrsquos finest woven fabric made in labA team of scientists at Britainrsquos Manchester University was awarded a Guinness World Record for using microscopic knots to create the worldrsquos finest woven fabric Professor David Leigh and his team of chemists announced they created a method for weaving molecular threads in twodimensional layers creating a fabric with a thread countnumber of strands per inchof 40 to 60 millionMuseum acquires giant Trump BalloonThe Museum of London has obtained the infamous balloon depicting former US President Donald Trump as a diaperwearing baby for a protestthemed collection The 20foottall ldquoTrump Babyrdquo balloon created by British artist Matthew Bonner made headlines worldwide in 2018BMX riderrsquos record breaking rideAn Alberta BMX rider broke a Guinness World Record with a 212687foot manualmdasha wheelie trick where the rider is not allowed to pedal while the wheel is off the ground Max Ganakovsky of Calgary said he had long aspired to set a Guinness World Record before attempting his recordbreaking manual which broke the previous record of 11122 feet His wheel was off the ground for just under two minutesMan makes airport home for three monthsA California man who had travelled to Chicago but was allegedly too scared by the COVID19 pandemic to fly home lived inside OrsquoHare International airport since October without anyone noticing Authorities say Aditya Singh managed to hide in a secured area of the airport before he was arrestedDonrsquot angry meNY woman laces husbandrsquos cuppa with boric acid every time he ticks her offA 70yearold woman from Queens New York was recently arrested after her husband caught her lacing his coffee with boric acid Last September Robert Baron first noticed that the food his wife of 11 years Suncha Tinevra cooked for him tasted funny He also started feeling sick after meals and sometimes he would get so tired that hersquod sleep for 15 hours Suspecting something fishy the 63yearold man secretly installed a surveillance camera in the kitchen and caught Tinevra lacing his coffee with a chemical used to kill cockroachesTinevra was arrested soon after and the coffee pot and coffee from the couplersquos home were seized for testing The elderly woman later admitted to the crime and added further that it wasnrsquot the first time she had done so ldquoIrsquove done this two or three times I donrsquot remember when just when Irsquom angryrdquo Suncha Tinevra told police ldquoI just wanted to teach him a lessonrdquo She was released last Friday