Everything You Didn't Know About the Rat Pack

Sammy Davis Jr.'s Death

Sammy Davis Jr. began developing symptoms from a cancerous tumor in his throat. He denied throat surgery because he wanted to keep his voice and opted for chemo and radiation therapy. It was successful at first, but cancer returned and he needed his larynx removed. He died of complications from throat cancer at his home in Beverly Hills, California on May 16, 1990, at the age of 64.

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The More You Know

  • If you sneeze while driving at 60 mph, your eyes are closed for around 50 feet.
  • Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".
  • The voices of Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.
  • The first commercial airplane flight lasted 23 minutes.
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