Thanksgiving Day Facts

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November 20, 2012

Fun Facts about Thanksgiving

 

Thanksgiving Day is tomorrow. While you are preparing all of your food and getting your house ready for the big feast: Here are some fun facts about Thanksgiving to enjoy.

 

 

  • The Plymouth Pilgrims were the first to celebrate Thanksgiving at Plymouth, Massachusetts
  • The Pilgrim leader, Governor William Bradford, had organized the first Thanksgiving feast in 1621. He invited the neighboring Wampanoag Indians to the feast.
  • Mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, milk, corn on the cob, and cranberries were not foods present on the first Thanksgiving feast.
  • However; Lobster, rabbit, chicken, fish, squash, beans, chestnuts, maple syrup and honey, cabbage, eggs, and goat cheese are thought to have made up the first Thanksgiving feast.
  • Sarah Josepha Hale persuaded Abraham Lincoln to declare Thanksgiving a national holiday. She is also the author of “Mary had a Little Lamb”, a popular nursery rhyme.
  • The annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade tradition began in the 1920’s.
  • Since 1947, the National Turkey Federation had presented a live turkey and two dressed turkeys to the president.
  • In the US, about 280 million turkeys are sold for the Thanksgiving celebrations.
  • Californians are the largest consumers of turkey in the United States.
  • The average weight of a turkey purchased at Thanksgiving is 15 pounds.
  • The five most popular ways to serve leftover turkey is as a sandwich, in stew, chili or soup, casseroles, and as a burger.
  • Turkeys will have 3,500 feathers at maturity.
  • Male turkeys gobble. Hens do not. They make a clucking noise.
  • Commercially raised turkeys cannot fly.
  • Turkeys have heart attacks. The United States Air Force was doing test runs and breaking the sound barrier. Nearby turkeys dropped dead with heart attacks.
  • Turkeys have poor night vision.
  • The Detroit Lions are the reason that there is Football on Thanksgiving
  • The night before Thanksgiving is the single biggest day for bar sales in the United States

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