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Obsession with Plastic Surgery Leaves Japanese Idol Looking Like Creature from Harry Potter

Posted: 01 May 2014 03:44 AM PDT

Rina Nanase, a 25-year-old Japanese idol has put herself through so much plastic surgery that she now sort of looks like Dobby the Elf from the Harry Potter films. The resemblance is uncanny – the large eyes, long nose, and pointed chin. The weirdest part is the once beautiful girl is actually proud of her new look…

In her original photographs, Rina looks like a sweet, normal young girl with a cherubic face. But in the past year, she underwent all sorts of transformations – all of which she chronicled on her Twitter account – that she seems like a totally different person. She has made several changes to her eyes, nose and chin that left her looking strange to many of her former fans. Still, Ms. Nanase was surprised to receive such negative reactions to her facial enhancements, as she doesn’t seem to think her looks have changed that much.

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Man Single-Handedly Builds World’s Largest Balloon Sculpture

Posted: 01 May 2014 02:20 AM PDT

John Reid, a balloon artist from New York, built the world's largest balloon sculpture (made by a single person) last Friday. He got to work on Thursday morning at the Salt Lake Comic Con FanXperience event and spent the next several hours inflating thousands of colored balloons at his booth.

42 hours later he had put together a 50-foot tall Transformers robot, 'Poptimus' Prime, using 4,302 purple, green, white, black and gray balloons. It was so tall that it actually couldn't fit upright in the convention center. Reid and 10 other volunteers had to struggle a bit to bring it into a kneeling position. The robot is said to be invincible, except for one weakness – needles!

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Guy Dubbed Europe’s Dirtiest Man Has Been Sleeping in Hot Ash for a Year

Posted: 01 May 2014 01:35 AM PDT

58-year-old Ludvik Dolezal is considered to be the dirtiest man in Europe. He's homeless, he has no access to a shower, and he's been sleeping in a pile of hot ash every night for the past year.

Ludvik spends his days  in an abandoned old farmhouse in Novy Bydzov, Czech Republic surrounded only by ashes of what were once his personal belongings. "A year ago I simply decided to quit my job. Since then I've been staying here with the fire," he said. He burnt all his material possessions at the time, even his mattress and duvet, to achieve the perfect mound of ash to sleep in. Now, he just burns whatever he finds to create his ash-bed. "Every night I lay down with hot ash in my clothes and cover myself to keep warm. I look like hell then."

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