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Elan School was a child behavior modification camp in Poland which operated between 1970 and 2011. Using Lord of The Flies style techniques, they would psychologically destroy the children for years, leading to extraordinarily high suicide rates. If a child escaped, bounty hunters would chase them across the country.
27. The jumping spider, Nefertiti, was launched to the International Space Station to observe if it could catch prey in microgravity. It succeeded in catching prey by learning to walk slowly, rather than leaping, as this species usually does. It survived re-entry and re-adjusted to full gravity before its natural death.
28. Brisbane was originally founded as a penal colony for convicts who committed new offenses after they had arrived in Australia.
29. Lisa Leslie is a high school basketball player who once scored 101 points in 16 minutes of play. She shot 37 of 56 from the floor and 27 of 35 from the line. However, she did not break the record for women’s points in a high school game because the other team’s coach refused to play the second half.
30. The death of Layne Staley, singer of Alice In Chains, was discovered when his accountants noticed that no money has been withdrawn in two weeks. They informed his former manager who then contacted his mother who then called 911.
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During the Korean War, 71 teenage students were stationed to protect a South Korean headquarter despite having no experience in war or even firing a gun. The South Korean army didn’t think the North Korean army would attack that headquarter, but they did. Those students, still in their school uniforms, held back the North Korean army for 11 hours.
32. Leonard Treherne Schroeder Jr., the first American soldier to land on the beach during the invasion of Normandy was shot twice and not only survived but lived to be 90 years old.
33. A Belgian businessman named Edgar Sengier was instrumental to the Manhattan Project’s success. Realizing uranium’s importance, he shipped 1,200 tons of it to Staten Island. When Lieutenant Colonel Nichols contacted him, he simply responded: “You can have the ore now. It is in New York. I was waiting for your visit.”
34. In the original ending to “Pretty Woman”, Richard Gere’s character throws Julia Roberts' character out of his limo in a dirty alley and tosses $3,000 on top of her.
35. Research has found that 94% of British people said that they had conversed about the weather in the past six hours, and 38% said they had in the past 60 minutes. This means that at any moment in the UK, a third of the population is either talking about the weather, has already done so, or is about to do so.
