Rose gold Minnie Mouse ears

If you are a fan of Disney-related products, then here is a good news for you — Disney Parks have just unveiled snazzy new rose gold Minnie Mouse ears.

These glimmering pink (right on the millennial pink trend) ears are covered in sequins and are topped with a matching bow. They catch the light and they are significantly more exciting than the regular old black set of ears. And you’re probably going to love this rose gold set.

‘Beached whale’ found in central Paris!

Parisians and tourists were stunned at the sight of a 50-foot beached ‘whale’ found on the banks of the river Seine in central Paris, recently.

Anyone could be touched by the scene — a 17-metre ‘sperm whale’, beached on its side, his eye looking up to the sky, as ‘forensic scientists’ worked around the body, taking samples and spraying it with water.

Passersby were disturbed at the sight of the poor creature stranded there. However, many didn’t realise it was all just a very elaborate stunt — an art piece. The whale named Captain Boomer (inspired by the character from the novel Moby Dick), was brought to Paris by a group of Belgian artists called Captain Boomer Collective; they installed the whale in order to raise awareness about the environment and educate people around the world about whales and the effects we have on their habitat.

The art installation will be taken away soon and will be up again ‘beached’ in another European capital soon.

Eggs with double yolks

A family beat odds of more than one in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 to crack open 10 double yolk eggs in one box.

Kathleen Soutar picked up a box of 10 eggs and was stunned to discover that every single one was a double yolker.

The chances of a single egg being a double yolker are thought to be about one in a thousand, so for an entire box of 10 eggs to all be double yolkers the odds are one in a nonillion — 10 to the power of 30 — or a 1 with 30 zeros.

Egg producer Pennine Eggs in Chorley, Lancashire, said they’d never had a whole box of 10 double yolkers and said it was simply down to unbelievable luck.

The fat monkey released into wild

Remember Uncle Fatty, the obese monkey who was sent to a weight loss boot camp? Well, after putting in loads of hard work and sticking to an intensive diet and exercise regimen, Uncle is finally going to be released into the wild.

The chubby macaque used to lounge around the beach-side Bang Khun Thian district in Bangkok, where visitors would constantly give him fattening food. Thai conservation officials got involved after photos of his humongous protruding belly were shared on social media. They tracked him down and at the time he weighed a hefty 27kg — a normal macaque should only weigh around eight to 10kg.

Officials immediately put Uncle Fatty into rehabilitation, with a strict diet of healthy fruits and vegetables.

Uncle now weighs 24.72kg — which is still big for a macaque, but it means that he’s lost around eight percent of his body weight.

Published in Dawn, Young World August 19th, 2017