The most familiar story of the first Thanksgiving took place in Plymouth Colony, (Massachusetts) in 1621. More than 200 years later, President Abraham Lincoln declared the final Thursday in November as a national day of thanksgiving. Congress finally made Thanksgiving Day an official national holiday in 1941.
THANKSGIVING FACTS
- Americans feast on 535 million pounds of turkey on Thanksgiving
- Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be our national bird.
- Only male (tom) turkeys gobble. Females make a clicking noise. The famous gobble is actually a seasonal mating call.
- The Turkey Trot, a ballroom dance in the 1900s, was named for the short, jerky steps of the turkey. It became popular mainly because it was denounced by the Vatican as "suggestive."
- Turkeys can drown if they look up when it's raining!
- Pilgrims did not have big buckles on their clothing, shoes, or hats.
- President Thomas Jefferson scoffed at the idea of establishing a national “Thanksgiving Day.”
- The average person consumes 4,500 calories on Thanksgiving Day.
first Thanksgiving football game broadcatsted
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macy's thankgsgiving day parade float
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