Forced to live in a Mozambique orphanage after AIDS killed their parents, Afonso Slater and Kelvin Lewis didn’t have much growing up — but they always had each other. Their strong bond endured as the boys were, coincidentally, both adopted by families in the same Phoenix suburb. Now the best friends are set to create even more memories together: They’re going to the same college next year, NBC News reported. Slater and Lewis are high school seniors in Gilbert, Arizona, and will attend Brigham Young University in Utah in the fall. Their families, who adopted them separately and months apart in 2008, believe it was a “miracle” the boys ended up in the same town.
Talk about a slap in the face.
A kayaker in New Zealand testing out a newly launched camera captured amazing video of a seal whacking a fellow kayaker in the face with an octopus.
Taiyo Masuda told NBC News the group was on a GoPro-funded kayaking trip off the coast of Kaikoura on New Zealand’s South Island to test the company's new Hero 7 Black camera on Sept. 22.
Masuda said around lunch time, the seals began to swim around them looking for food.
"One seal swims right next to us, having an octopus in his mouth, pops right up off the surface next to us, then tries to chew up the leg but ended up slapping our face," Masuda told NBC.
Video shows the seal springing out of the water with the octopus clutched in its mouth, and then clobbering kayaker Kyle Mulinder in the face with its lunch.
"That was mental," Masuda can be heard saying in the video.
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Masuda told NBC the raw moment brought the group a lot of laughter all day long and the day is one they'll never forget.
"I’ve never had such an amazing kayak everrrrr!!" Masuda wrote in an Instagram post of the video.
