26School of the Americas
The School of the Americas has had more graduates become dictators than any other school in history.
27. Pete Goss is a British yachtsman who turned back during the 1996 Vendee Globe race to save a fellow competitor, Raphael Dinelli. Goss sailed into hurricane-force winds for two days to reach Dinelli; who was said to have been clutching a bottle of champagne when he was pulled from the sea.
28. The last surviving palace eunuch of the Chinese Empire only died in 1996. His family was desperate for money and he was castrated at the age of 9 in 1911, and the last Emperor of China abdicated only a few months later.
29. Former tallest woman in the world, Sandy Allen (7’7” or 2.31m), never married saying that she was “an old-fashioned girl” and would not date a man shorter than her.
30. The Oregon Trail (1971) videogame is actually older than Pong (1972). It was originally developed for use by a school teacher in Minnesota as a history lesson.
