Philippe Petit became world famous in 1974 when he did a high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York. | Weird History

Dr. Philippe Bensignor Catches a Falling Baby in Paris (2010) In 2010, Dr. Philippe Bensignor, a French doctor, was walking past an apartment building in Paris when he witnessed a horrifying sight: a 15-month-old boy falling from a seventh-floor balcony. As fate would have it, the child bounced off a café awning, slowing his descent, and Bensignor miraculously caught him in his arms before he hit the ground. Remarkably, the boy was completely unharmed. Authorities later charged the boy’s parents