23 Eye-Opening Facts About Bets You Didn’t Know

11Lacrosse

Lacrosse

Lacrosse was an incredibly violent game created by North American Natives. People were crippled or killed as it was used in place of warfare and diplomatic disputes, where players could even bet their families for slavery to the other team.


12Brian Zembic

Brian Zembic

A guy named Brian Zembic in 1996 had breasts implanted just to win a $100,000 bet. He never got them removed.


13Horatio Nelson Jackson

Horatio Nelson Jackson

The first successful US trans-continental automobile trip in 1903 was done on a $50 wager by a man named Horatio Nelson Jackson who did not own a car, had practically no experience driving, and had no maps to follow. It took 63 days.


14Thomas Fitzpatrick

Thomas Fitzpatrick

In 1956, for a bet, while drunk, American pilot Thomas Fitzpatrick stole a small plane from New Jersey and then landed it perfectly on a narrow Manhattan street in front of the bar he had been drinking at. Then, two years later, he did it again after a man didn't believe he had done it the first time.


15Michael Burry

Michael Burry

In 2000, a medical school student named Michael Burry quit school to start an investment firm with money borrowed from family, bet against subprime mortgages and walked away with $100 million in profit.


16Trinity nuclear test

Trinity nuclear test

Physicists bet on the Trinity nuclear tests; estimates ranged from a dud to the complete annihilation of the planet.


17Ulysses Baxter

Ulysses Baxter

A Texas man named Ulysses Baxter once spent 22 days using only his nose to push a peanut all the way up Pikes Peak for a $50 bet.


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18Stu Ungar

Stu Ungar

In 1977, a Las Vegas casino magnate once bet Stu Ungar (future three-time World Series of Poker main event champion) $100,000 that he could not count down a six-deck blackjack shoe and correctly guess the last card. Ungar won the bet.


19Chevalier d'Eon

Chevalier d'Eon

Le Chevalier d'Eon was a French diplomat who lived alternatively as male or female. There was a betting pool over his real gender (male) that closed only after his autopsy.


20Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman and Michelle Pfeiffer both bet George Clooney $10,000 that he would have kids by the age of 40. Staying childless they sent him the money which he returned, replying double or nothing by the age of 50.

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