In 1990, Home Alone was released and quickly became a Christmas classic. It's Die Hard for kids, with one plucky nine- year-old taking on a pair of bumbling baddies with the kind of violent ingenuity that should raise a few flags at a psychiatrist's office.
Would a child like Kevin McCallister be left emotionally scarred by his run-in with the Wet Bandits? Well, Macauley Culkin was left physically scarred, after Joe Pesci bit hit finger and broke the skin. That's just one of the nine facts you probably don't know about the classic Christmas caper.
You can see the rest of them below. Keep the change, ya filthy animals...