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Strange Ritual: Drop My Baby

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Watch this Reuters video to see one of the strangest rituals ever recorded. For nearly 500 years, people have been coming to this tower and dropping their babies off a 50-foot rooftop into a blanket below. Officials say no babies have ever been hurt.

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