Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Did you know Forrest Gump was supposed to go to space with an ape? Yep, the beloved character was an astronaut in the novel, ...

This story originally published in 2020. Winston Groom, the writer, historian and University of Alabama graduate whose novel "Forrest Gump" became a pop-culture phenomenon, selling 1.7 million copies ...