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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In Finland, there’s a heavy metal band for children.

You’re never too young to rupture your ear drums. Hevisaurus is a Finnish heavy metal children’s music band, who dress in dinosaur costumes. The band was started by Thunderstone drummer Mirka Rantanen. Their first album, Kings of Jurassic Metal, was on the Finnish Album charts for 10 weeks.

Now, you’ll never guess where this band came from. According to the Hevisaurus back-story, the band members were hatched from five metal eggs that had lain buried in a mountain from 65 million years in the past. Lightning and witch spells apparently unearthed the eggs and brought them to life.

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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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TV is not an American invention!

As it turns out, Americans did not invent the most American appliance known to man. The television was invented by a Russian engineer named Boris Rosing who, in 1907, used a cathode ray tube to receive images and figured out how to transmit light to a receiving screen.

In 1925, a Scottish scientist named John Logie Baird transmitted moving images to a cathode ray tube using 30 line (line not pixel) resolution. And then we go back to Russia, where Leon Theremin gave a huge kick to the TV’s quality and the first fully functional model of the most important part of any American living room.

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Muse may have hidden a word using Morse code in one of their songs.

You've probably heard of bands hiding backwards messages in their songs, but this one is older and nerdier. Some clever fans realized that the beginning of the Muse song "Starlight" had a word in Morse code.

The song starts with clapping drums that spell out "__ .. __ …" which spells out the word "TITS." It might be intentional, although some people believe that it is purely coincidental.

The song, Starlight is from the 2006 album "Black Holes and Revelations, and is a love song about missing someone you love. What do you think… Do we have any Muse fans amongst our readers? Did they intend to put that code in or was it accidental? If you haven't heard the song, we're embedding it.

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