--- title: Over 100 Walking Dead Facts You Probably Didn't Know description: With the return of The Walking Dead less than a week away, it's time for fans to get into full-on zombie apocalypse mode. canonical: https://time.com/4213661/over-100-walking-dead-facts/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-09T16:15:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:29:50.554Z og:title: Over 100 Walking Dead Facts You Probably Didn't Know og:description: Apparently, Norman Reedus has Andrew Lincoln’s beard shavings in his fridge og:url: https://time.com/4213661/over-100-walking-dead-facts/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Over 100 Walking Dead Facts You Probably Didn't Know twitter:description: Apparently, Norman Reedus has Andrew Lincoln’s beard shavings in his fridge twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here Are More Than 100 _Walking Dead_ Facts You Probably Didn't Know  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 9, 2016 4:15 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 9, 2016 4:15 PM UTC With the return of [_The Walking Dead_](http://time.com/4188649/lauren-cohan-pranked-on-ellen/)less than a week away, it’s time for fans to get into full-on zombie apocalypse mode. While the wait for the second half of season six hasn’t been an easy one, [Rick Grimes](http://time.com/3483017/andrew-lincoln-interview/), [Daryl Dixon](http://time.com/3771749/walking-dead-weekend-update/) and the rest of the crew will finally be gracing TV screens again come Sunday. To tide viewers over during these last few days before the mid-season premiere, the team over at [Cinematica](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTyHgU6ddX9eXLeSr6KUoSQ/featured) has created one of their “107 Facts You Should Know” videos, this time focusing on the AMC show’s previous season. **Read More:** [_The Walking Dead_: Did the Midseason Finale Satisfy?](http://time.com/4128917/the-walking-dead-midseason-finale/) Some of the interesting tidbits included are the fact that the show’s logo has been decaying since the first season (just like the walkers), Lenny James, the actor who plays Morgan, was taught to fight with the staff by an actor who played one of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Norman Reedus cried for an hour before shooting Beth’s death scene. Watch the full video above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4213661/over-100-walking-dead-facts/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4213661/over-100-walking-dead-facts/"},"headline":"Here Are More Than 100 Walking Dead Facts You Probably Didn't Know","datePublished":"2016-02-09T16:15:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:50.554Z","description":"Apparently, Norman Reedus has Andrew Lincoln’s beard shavings in his fridge","url":"https://time.com/4213661/over-100-walking-dead-facts/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","The Walking Dead","TV","Rick Grimes"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4213661/over-100-walking-dead-facts/","name":"Here Are More Than 100 Walking Dead Facts You Probably Didn't Know"}}]}] ```