Page 54 - Best of the Month

An Indian tradition has mothers throwing their babies from 50-feet high!

Every year, in Sholapur, India, moms from around the region come to fulfill a tradition that is supposed to secure good luck to their children: Dropping them from a 50-foot-tall building.

The babies are caught by people holding a bed sheet down below. Check out the video below to see it in action!

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Navy Dolphins recently found a 130-year-old torpedo!

Yes, the Navy has trained dolphins that aid the military branch in underwater exploration. In this case, the dolphins found a piece of history off the coast of San Diego.

Built about 130 years ago, the type of torpedo they found is called a Howell and it's one of the first torpedoes built that can propel itself. Only 50 of the 11-foot-long devices were made, and only two remain in existence.

The torpedo is now being cleaned and being made ready for it to be displayed at the Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington.

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51% of US coupled-adults cheat on their partners... on Netflix!

A recent survey found that over half of US adults in committed relationships commit what they're humorously calling 'Netflix adultery' on their significant others. Netflix Adultery is when you secretly watch a video on Netflix that you're supposed to be watching together with your partner.

Netflix itself ran the survey, and they found some interesting stuff. Only 12% of people surveyed admitted to doing so, while 10% reported being cheated on. 22% of those who cheated admitted to watching the 'forbidden' videos in bed while their partner was asleep next to them.

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Play-doh was created by accident!

Although I suppose that just adds to it's whimsy. Play-doh was originally developed as wall paper cleaner. However, it was soon noted that it was really bad at being wall paper cleaner and much better at being modeling clay.

When it first came out, the only color available was white. However, it only took a year for play-doh to paint itself with every color in the rainbow. Soon enough, kids were bouncing off of the walls for it!

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In the prehistoric times, there was a flightless bird that ate horses!

We may laugh at the flightlessness of birds like ostriches and penguins nowadays but you did not want to mess with their oldest ancestor, Phosurhacida. Aka: The Terror Bird. It was the largest species of predators in South America between 62 million to 2 million years ago.

They were roughly 3 to 10 feet tall and munched on small mammals. They used their massive beaks to either pick up prey and slam them into the ground or inflict precision strikes on critical body parts. Archeologists say that this species left the world at about the same time we got here.

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