Bring Back Memories With Classic Christmas Movies and TV Specials Feast on These Fun Turkey Facts At your Thanksgiving feast this year, you can wow your family with these fun facts about the main course: • Ben Franklin wanted the turkey to be named the official United States bird. • Wild turkeys can run as fast as 20 miles per hour. And they can fly at speeds up to 55 miles per hour — but only for short distances. • Every Thanksgiving, Americans eat about 675 million pounds of turkey, with the average holiday turkey weighing about 15 pounds. • Turkeys can see movement almost a hundred yards away. • Male turkeys gobble, while females make a clicking noise. • They can see in color, but don’t have good night vision. • They typically have 3,500 feathers when they reach full maturity. • Most wild turkeys live in hardwood forests with grassy areas. Here’s a bonus piece of trivia: On average, the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line answers questions from 100,000 people during November and December. If you need help from turkey experts, call 1-800-BUTTERBALL or text 844-877-3456. The holiday season tends to be a sentimental time with strong connections to the past. Maybe you always bake your grandmother’s famous Christmas cookie recipe or hang ornaments on the tree made by your children or grandchildren years ago. Another way to travel down memory lane is to watch the Christmas movies and TV specials that were especially meaningful to you during earlier chapters in your life. They can take you back in time faster than a one-horse open sleigh goes dashing through the snow! Be sure to set aside some time this season to gather the family, pop some popcorn and enjoy your favorite Christmas classics at home. On www.rottentomatoes.com, they share their top 10 Christmas movies ever. Are your favorites on this list? • It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) • Miracle on 34th Street (1947) • Holiday Inn (1942) • The Shop Around the Corner (1940) • Stalag 17 (1953) • The Apartment (1960) • The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) • Die Hard (1988) • Arthur Christmas (2011) • A Christmas Story (1983) When it comes to Christmas TV specials, the golden age was arguably during the 1960s, which produced the beloved animated classics below. Watch them and the floodgates of nostalgia are sure to open. • Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) • A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) • How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966) • The Little Drummer Boy (1968) • Frosty the Snowman (1969) Before you watch these Christmas classics, make sure you’re equipped for the best streaming experience. Visit www.wcta.net to check out our ultra-fast internet speeds, and switch to our streaming service, West Central TV, to get a FREE Fire TV Stick.
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