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Outrageous Korean High-School Yearbook Photos Yield Hilarious Results

Posted: 19 Feb 2014 03:00 AM PST

Let's face it – no one's particularly proud of their high school yearbook picture. Or are they? We just found out that South Korean schools are allowing kids to get away with all kinds of bizarre poses. The phenomenon is not just limited to one school – these pictures from several yearbooks are doing the rounds on the internet.

You really have to hand it to these kids, they are absolutely hilarious. In some of the pictures from Jeonju Haesung High School, the students appear to be posing in costumes of their future professions. So you can spot a diver, a farmer, a fisherman, an archer and a barber, all sporting weird expressions. But soon they begin to lose the plot. There's Ironman, followed by The Joker, and a boy dressed like a nun.

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Food Artist Creates Edible Replica of Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam” Using 10,000 Marshmallows

Posted: 19 Feb 2014 02:00 AM PST

Sweets are not just meant for eating, they can be used for art too! Artist Michelle Wibowo recently used tasty treats to create a life-size replica of Michelangelo's famous Sistine Chapel painting – The Creation of Adam. Measuring 18'9'' by 9'2'', it features 10,000 marshmallows and half a billion cake sprinkles. It's been rightly dubbed, 'The Baking of Adam'.

Michelle took 168 hours to complete the project that marks the 450th anniversary of Michelangelo’s death. "Britain is currently gripped by baking fever with a real emphasis on unique designs and showmanship," said the 35-year-old artist who baked the masterpiece for Cake Angels. "When we learnt of Michelangelo's anniversary celebrations, we really wanted to join in. We decided to challenge the boundaries of cake design by immortalizing his most heavenly creation in our own special way. No celebration is complete without cake and we really hope that Michelangelo would have given us his official seal of approval."

According to creative director Alex Balzaretti, "Cake Angles is all about inspiring the baker through creativity and innovation. We've been looking for a project for a long time that enabled us to do that and it became apparent that 2014 was going to be a historic year in the celebration of the life of Michelangelo. His most important and probably prized work of art is The Creation of Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and what more heavenly creation to be picked."

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What’s the World’s Most Beautiful Flower? Why, Money, Of Course!

Posted: 19 Feb 2014 01:00 AM PST

They say money can't buy love but this Chinese couple have proven all that nonsense wrong. Chen Li, a software programmer, proposed to his girlfriend with 999 roses made of bank notes. Needless to say, she happily accepted.

As romantic as it sounds, it turns out that 27-year-old Chen was provoked into inventing the bizarre proposal. When he visited the girlfriend's parents during the recent Spring Festival, the young couple spoke about their marriage plans. The parents, however, weren't amused. Chen was told in no uncertain terms that he had to have a house and a car to even think about marrying their daughter. "Renting an apartment is acceptable before marriage, while marriage without a home isn't appropriate," said the girl's mother.

Chen was clearly stung; the fact that his girlfriend said nothing to support him added to his disappointment. So when he got back home, he went straight to the bank to empty his account of all his life savings – 200,000 yuan. He then spent the next four days folding the notes into 999 flowers. Each flower contained two notes and took 5 to 6 minutes to create. He would begin after dinner every night and keep working until two in the morning.

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