Can I tear my ACL just by lifting something heavy and walking with it?

Just that is what happen to me. I was lifting something heavy on my shoulder and walking with it and then I heard a pop and my knee gave out. I had surgery to reconstruct it.

Most of the literature I read on this is that the ACL can only tear by pivoting, cutting, or someone hitting you in the knee. None of that happened.

When It happened, I only remember feeling fatigue and tired, and was turning a corner while lifting the heavy thing. Prior to this, my knee felt slightly loose, so I may have had a undiagnosed partial tear that happened when I was kid.
 
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