26 Dunkable Facts That Break Backboards
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Did you know that Alexander the Great was inadvertently buried alive? Alexander is thought to have had Guillain-Barré Syndrome, a neurological condition. People believe he was only paralyzed and physically and psychologically aware when he died.
Similarly, ever heard Abraham Lincoln was a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame? By many of his roughly 300 contests, the 6'4" head of state had only one defeat. He established a reputation as an aristocracy fighter in New Salem for this.
When you study history lessons, it may appear that you are simply memorizing spontaneous facts and information about historical events. And while knowing the past is essential, uncovering a few odd history lessons makes learning even more enjoyable. The below amazingly weird history information and historical trivia are amongst the most interesting tidbits from the previous era, whether you're hoping to expand the history or become a whiz during your next random history facts trivia night.
![They poured Coca-Cola on an Italian town's cobblestones for No Time to Die. o They were filming a chase scene and the cobblestones didn't have enough grip, so they used Coke and it was incredible how well it was working. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/9/810519.jpg)
![George Clooney would call out Brotherhood! to Michael Keaton on a movie set. It was on Out Of Sight, and Keaton only figured out later that, oh yeah, Clooney was talking about the fact that they both played Batman. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/8/810518.jpg)
![The shoot of There Will Be Blood got in the way of No Country For Old Men. Both movies shot in the same isolated area and, one day, No Country couldn't film because the other movie released too much smoke. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/5/810515.jpg)
![There's a decaying, abandoned WWII US army base in the landscape of Greenland. The abandoned equipment includes about 10,000 rusted and leaking fuel barrels, which the locals charmingly call American Flowers. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/4/810514.jpg)
![The record for the fastest run from LA to NYC is 25 hours and 39 minutes. That was the Cannonball run record set in 2020 (by a team who beat their own 2019 record of 27 hours, 25 minutes). Their average speed? 112 mph. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/3/810513.jpg)
![The longest distance at which one tank destroyed another is about 3 miles. The record was made by a British Challenger tank in the Gulf War, in 1991 - kind of amazingly, it hasn't been beaten since. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/2/810512.jpg)
![Visitors to a dinosaur park demanded refunds because the dinos weren't alive. The park was called Dinosaurs Live! and some people took it too literally - about six people asked for their $2.50 back, apparently. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/1/810511.jpg)
![One Scottish town celebrates Halloween on the last Friday of October. In Kilmarnock, they hold Killieween celebrations on the last Friday for unclear reasons - it's a very old tradition, but nobody knows how it got started. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/9/810509.jpg)
![The first man who freely walked in space got over 300 feet from his space shuttle. NAS Astronaut Bruce McCandless' untethered spacewalk (with just a jetpack) happened in 1984, and he says he wasn't nervous about doing at all. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/7/810517.jpg)
![Polio was actually a serious disease only in a very small minority of cases. Less than 1% of infected people got paralytic poliomyelitis, while 72% have no symptoms and about 24% have symptoms that quickly resolve. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/6/810516.jpg)
![The Schrödinger's cat experiment was deliberately proposed as a silly idea. Schrödinger suggested it was ridiculous for a cat to be dead and alive because of a quantum state, but that turned out to be basically right. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/1/0/810510.jpg)
![Heinz mounted a campaign to get hot dog bun and wiener packages to match. They brought up outrage about the bun-to-hot-dog ratio issue, by which they meant the fact that buns are sold in packs of eight. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/7/810507.jpg)
![The Hard Rock Café is entirely owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida. CAFE Hard Rock CAFE HONGIKONG They bought it back in 2007 - and that also means they in turn own the world's biggest music memorabilia collection, since that's owned by Hard Rock. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/6/810506.jpg)
![A loose tooth almost jeopardized It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. When Sally's six-year-old actress had a tooth get loose, they rushed her to the studio to get all her lines in before it fell out and she started to lisp. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/8/810508.jpg)
![The original 35-page treatment for The Blair Witch Project had zero dialogue. That was on purpose: the authors described what would happen, but they wanted all the lines to be ad-libbed by the actors themselves. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/5/810505.jpg)
![OG Michael Myers actor Nick Castle did way more than you probably knew. He's not just an actor, but a writer and director - he co-wrote Escape from New York and directed '90s films like Dennis the Menace. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/1/810501.jpg)
![It's estimated that 2,5 billion Tyrannosaurus rexes ever lived on Earth. THERINE RAORDINARY SPECIMEN That's over the species' entire 2.4 million-year lifespan - and, at any given moment in that span, only about 20,000 T-Rexes were running around. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/3/810503.jpg)
![After the Civil War, the capital of the US was almost moved to St Louis. The scheme even involved disassembling important buildings like the White House and the Capitol building, and shipping them to St. Louis. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/0/810500.jpg)
![In Operation Magic Carpet, the US returned eight million people home. -ADN The operation, led after WWII ended, involved getting an average of 22,222 soldiers back to the US every day for almost a whole year. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/4/810504.jpg)
![In Bow Valley, Canada, one grizzly bear has been dominant for some 10 years. illustration Не has the humdrum name of Bear No. 122, weighs 500-600 pounds, and has been at the top of the local grizzly hierarchy for about a decade. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/0/2/810502.jpg)
![In Ancient Egypt, they had egg incubators that could hatch up to 4,500 eggs. The incubators were cleverly designed ovens that, if operated right, could hatch all those thousands of fertilized eggs within several weeks. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/7/810497.jpg)
![The National September 11 Memorial is always carefully heated and cooled. ALAN // RICHARD / GUADAGNO CH MARTINEZ MARK BINGHAM It was designed so that people could always touch it, so an elaborate system of copper tubes heats or cools it as necessary at all times. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/8/810498.jpg)
![The CIA built a tracking device shaped to look just like a piece of tiger poop. It was for the Vietnam War, and they needed a device that could look completely unobtrusive in the jungle. The choice was clear. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/9/810499.jpg)
![Scotland Yard is sitting on a bunch of information about Jack the Ripper. NEV SCOTLAND VARD For some reason, they just don't want to release it - apparently, they have four ledgers with information they refuse to publish. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/5/810495.jpg)
![There's a Grateful Dead show that somehow hasn't been recorded at all. Apparently, there's no tape of any kind of the performance, and people want a recording so bad that the reward for one is $1,200. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/4/810494.jpg)
![Kodak used to operate a private nuclear reactor under its corporate campus. 0 D A K K The reactor was there for 30 years, and was about as big as a fridge. They kept it behind concrete walls in a basement and operated it remotely. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/6/810496.jpg)