→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut The Nazis and the Origin of the Olympic Flame Tradition https://youtu.be/cCr-D5asMFg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3XRa-w_G0dy_aMMXj0Uq-k Why No One Uses the Official Olympic Salute Anymore https://youtu.be/tnISASAjbEE?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3XRa-w_G0dy_aMMXj0Uq-k In this video: The Brushy Mountain Penitentiary, where they used to house some of the worst of the worst criminals, is located on the eastern side of Frozen Head State Park in the Tennessee mountains. Although escape attempts were rare, the prison’s ideal location reduced the chances of prisoners safely making it back to civilization. Beyond being a maximum security prison, if an inmate did happen to evade the guards and get over the two exterior walls of the penitentiary, the Tennessee mountains might as well have been a gigantic third wall. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/07/barkley-marathons-race-intense-14-people-ever-completed/ Sources: http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/24/us/james-earl-ray-70-killer-of-dr-king-dies-in-nashville.html?pagewanted=all http://www.outsideonline.com/1924491/60-hours-hell-story-barkley-marathons http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-30/all-40-runners-fail-to-complete-100-mile-tennessee-mountain-race http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/sports/the-barkley-marathons-few-know-how-to-enter-fewer-finish.html http://running.competitor.com/2014/04/news/finishing-americas-quriky-race_98447 http://www.ksl.com/?sid=39275931&nid=1288 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_Head_State_Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkley_Marathons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lighting_the_cigarette_