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Six Impossible Episodes: Prison Breaks
Stuff You Missed in History Class
The Prisoners of Alcatraz
The men made a raft out of about 50 raincoats. They used contact cement they had stolen from various workshops around the prison and heat from the steam pipes to vulcanize the seams of the raft. Each of their cells had an airvent, and they used tools to make a series of holes around these vents so that the whole thing in each cell could be pulled out from the wall. Yet another improvised tool with all this was a periscope which they used to watch for guards while they were working. But then what happened to them after that is a mystery.
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