Fun Facts

The first Thanksgiving feast didn’t feature turkey! Instead, the Pilgrims and Wampanoag likely enjoyed venison, duck, geese, lobster, and fish.
The TV dinner was invented by accident. In 1953, a company with too many frozen turkeys turned the surplus into pre-packaged Thanksgiving meals.
Americans eat about 46 million turkeys every Thanksgiving.
“Jingle Bells” was originally written in 1857 as a Thanksgiving song for children—long before it became a Christmas classic.
The average person consumes around 4,500 calories during their Thanksgiving meal.

The first Thanksgiving in 1621 was a three-day celebration shared by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people.
Thanksgiving didn’t become an official U.S. holiday until 1863, when Abraham Lincoln proclaimed it after being persuaded by Sarah Josepha Hale, author of “Mary Had a Little Lamb.”
Benjamin Franklin once suggested the turkey as the national bird, believing it more respectable than the bald eagle.
The first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade took place in 1924, featuring live animals from the Central Park Zoo instead of the famous balloons we know today.
The presidential turkey pardon tradition officially began in 1989 with George H. W. Bush.

There are four U.S. towns named “Turkey” — in Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, and North Carolina.
The day after Thanksgiving is often the busiest day of the year for plumbers (leftovers and overworked sinks, anyone?).
The Butterball Turkey Talk-Line has been helping cooks with turkey troubles for nearly 40 years!

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