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Unusual but true: Triplets world's youngest skydivers at age 3
2018-11-30 

In stories this week, we have 3-year-old triplets becoming the world's youngest skydivers, a culinary artist making gorgeous 3D jelly cakes, 324 dancers creating the world's largest disco dance, this year's news-related dolls in Japan, and a full-scale digital art museum where you can immerse yourself in color.

All the interesting, odd anecdotes from around the world are here, in our news review.

Triplets world's youngest skydivers at age 3

Triplets Kuzey, Koray and Ayaz Cerikci, all aged 3, are the world's youngest skydivers. [Photo/IC]

These one in 3 million triplets, aged 3, have become the world's youngest skydivers.

Naturally conceived triplets Kuzey, Koray and Ayaz Cerikci, who are affectionately known as The Piplets on social media, completed their first indoor skydive at iFLY in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, on Nov 13, 2018.

Triplets Kuzey, Koray and Ayaz Cerikci, all aged 3, have broken the record for the world's youngest skydivers. [Photo/IC]

Their mom Claire Cerikci, 40, was cheering on her boys as they became the youngest Brits to brave the flight. In matching outfits and helmets, Kuzey, Koray and Ayaz looked adorable as they soared through the flight simulation chamber with three instructors – even holding each other's hands.

Fanciful 3D jelly cakes look too beautiful to eat

Siew Heng Boon of Jelly Alchemy creates gorgeous 3D jelly cakes. [Photo/IC]

The 35-year-old cake maker Siew Heng Boon, from Malaysia, crafts gorgeous confections that don't look edible at all. Her glasslike creations are instead akin to fanciful office paperweights with flowers and fish encased beneath clear surfaces.

Known as 3D jelly cakes, these confections are made with gelatin or seaweed jelly powder and use specific tools to inject colorful motifs onto a clear base.

Siew Heng Boon of Jelly Alchemy creates gorgeous 3D jelly cakes. [Photo/IC]

Siew Heng Boon discovered the art of 3D jelly cakes in 2016. Intrigued by the unique food art, she undertook a 3D jelly class, learning all the basics about design, coloring and taste. 

Siew Heng Boon, who lives in Sydney, uses a special method to create designs that include multicolored flowers and fish swimming among them. [Photo/IC]

324 dancers do world's largest disco dance

The record attempt, celebrating the DVD and Blu-ray release of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, took place on London's South Bank, a stone's throw from Waterloo, and broke the previous record of 314 dancers. [Photo/IC]

Mamma Mia! fever descended on the UK today, as Strictly Come Dancing's Ola and James Jordan led 324 dancers in disco-inspired outfits to a new Guinness World Record title for the world's largest disco dance.

Some 324 students from Bird Performing Arts College boogied their way through a five-minute dance routine to the hit Mamma Mia, specially choreographed by Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again choreographer Anthony Van Laast and led by assistant choreographer Lucy Bardrick.

Some 324 dancers set a new Guinness World Record for the world's largest disco dance, celebrating before the live performance in front of Guinness World Record adjudicator Joanne Brent on Nov 26, 2018. [Photo/IC]

It wasn't just London's Waterloo that got into the ABBA spirit. Performances of the same routine in identical outfits also took place at different Waterloo-named locations across the UK, including Waterloo, North Lanarkshire, and Waterloo, Merseyside.

Inspired by the film's famous jetty dance sequence, the students spent weeks learning the routine. [Photo/IC]

Traditional doll maker displays the year's news-related dolls

Kawaribina dolls of Japanese major league player Shohei Ohtani, and tennis player Naomi Osaka, who won the US Open, are displayed in Ueno, Tokyo, on Nov 27, 2018. [Photo/IC]

Kawaribina are special dolls depicting events from the past year, created annually by Mataro Doll Company since 1946.

The basic shape of every doll is carefully hand-molded by Mataro himself and the dolls are entirely handmade. The artisanal skills that go into each doll have been inherited for about 260 years.

The Mataro Doll Company displays this year's news-related dolls in Ueno, Japan, on Nov 27, 2018. [Photo/IC]

The founder, Kanabayashi Mataro the First, started to make the dolls, hoping to carry the voice of customers, from discontent to desires, into society. Kawaribina dolls are issued every day on TV, newspapers and the internet.

Walk through maze of color at interactive museum

Visitors enjoy a visionary digital art installation by Japan's digital art collective company teamLab at the Mori Building Digital Art Museum in Tokyo on Nov 28, 2018. [Photo/IC]

The Mori Building Digital Art Museum teamLab Borderless is a full-scale digital art institution in the Palette Town complex of Odaiba, Tokyo.

There are no borders in this dark maze of an exhibit. This permanent art installation seeks to remove boundaries and allow museumgoers to explore the fictional and beautiful world on their own terms.

Visitors enjoy a visionary digital art installation by Japan's digital art collective company teamLab at the Mori Building Digital Art Museum in Tokyo on Nov 28, 2018. [Photo/IC]

Mori Building and teamLab hope that their groundbreaking museum will inspire people to create enlightened new values and innovative new social frameworks.

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