Do you Think you are a Thankgiving Officianado, browse through to find some cool things about thanksgiving you might not have known yet ! :)
#1 — The Turkey was almost the national bird. It was a debate between the turkey and the eagle — and the eagle was thought to be scrawny, not regal. While it eventually became the eagle, if Benjamin Franklin had his way, we might have had a turkey as our national bird — and we wouldn’t be roasting it up to have on the dinner table.
#2 — There are TWO countries that celebrate Thanksgiving — it’s not just an American holiday. Both Canada and the United States celebrate with an annual Thanksgiving, but in Canada it falls on the second Monday in October. In the US, it’s the fourth Thursday in November.
#3 — 88% of Americans have a turkey on the table over Thanksgiving.Some estimates, state more than 690 million pounds of turkey were consumed for Thanksgiving in 2007.
#4 — Leftover turkey helped invent TV dinners. After all that turkey is raised for our national holiday, what happens if there are leftovers? In 1953, as legend has it, someone at Swanson overestimated the number of turkeys that would be sold — and they ended up with 26 TONS of extra meat. What did they do with all of this? They ended up slicing, freezing, and repackaging the meat with sides and voila: the first TV dinner was born.
#5 — Thanksgiving became a national holiday in 1941, more than 300 years after the first celebration. While the first Thanksgiving might have happened as early as 1621, it took 200 years before President Abraham Lincoln declared the final Thursday as a national day of Thanksgiving — and it took Congress until 1941 to make it an official national holiday.
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