Yup, Thanksgiving is here. You know the drill -- travel, see family, eat turkey, sleep it off. But there is so much more to this day than you might realize.
The young cast of The Sandlot had a lot of great on-screen adventures while filming the classic 90s baseball comedy. As it turns out, they had some fun off-screen as well. One night after filming had wrapped, Smalls, Benny, Squints and the gang headed out to a nearby movie theater in Utah where they were shooting and snuck into a screening of Basic Instinct to see the notorious Sharon Stone leg cross on the big screen. This is just one of the facts in the latest installment of You Think You Know Movies!
Thanksgiving is almost here, which means we start seeing turkeys everywhere—on TV, in our children's school drawings, running through our dreams every single night while we sleep ... you get the idea. And eventually these poor turkeys will be inside many of our overstuffed stomachs as well.
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1879- President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
1933- President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt escaped an attempt on his life in Miami, when shots fired at him by an assailant Giuseppe Zangara missed...
It's almost time for everyone's (least) favorite holiday -- Valentine's Day! But before you resign yourself to watching 'Marley & Me' and eating soup straight out of the can, learn these facts! At least that way you can feel like you're not completely worthless because you're still capable of learning. That should help. That, and ice cream.