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In 1953, Swanson over- estimated the number frozen turkeys that it would sell on Thanksgiving by 26 tons. The company decided to slice up the extra meat and repackage it--creat- ing the first ever TV din- ner.
Black Friday is the busiest day for Roto- Rooter, a major plumb- ing service. They are called in to clean up “overwhelmed” sewer systems.
The night before Thanksgiving is the biggest drinking night of the year, even bigger than St. Patrick's Day or New Year's Eve.
Pilgrims did not wear buckled hats or dress only in black and white. Buckles did not come into fashion until later in the 17th century, and the pilgrims usually saved their formal black and white colors for Sunday.
Thanksgiving is ranked as America's second most popular holiday, after Christmas.
Approximately 50 million people watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on television.
The average American will consume about 4,500 calories on Thanksgiving Day, or about 3,000 for the meal and an additional 1,500 for snacking.
The Butterball Turkey hotline answers over 100,000 questions every November and early December.
The song "Jingle Bells" was originally written as a Thanksgiving song. The famous pilgrim cele- bration at Plymouth Colony Massachusetts in
1621 is traditionally regarded as the first American Thanksgiving. However, there are actu- ally 12 claims to where the “first” Thanksgiving took place: two in Texas, two in Florida, one in Maine, two in Virginia, and five in Massachusetts.
President Jefferson called a federal Thanksgiving proclama- tion “the most ridiculous idea ever conceived.”
The famous “Pilgrim and Indian” story featured in modern Thanksgiving narratives was not initial- ly part of early Thanksgiving stories, largely due to tensions between Indians and colonists.
Held every year on the island of Alcatraz since 1975, “Unthanksgiving Day” commemorates the survival of Native Americans following the arrival and settlement of Europeans in the Americas.
The first Thanksgiving in America actually occurred in 1541, when Francisco Vasquez de Coronado and his expe- dition held a thanksgiv- ing celebration in Palo Duro Canyon in the Texas panhandle.
The turkeys typically depicted in Thanksgiving pictures are not the same as the domestic turkeys most people eat at Thanksgiving. Domestic turkeys usually weigh twice as much and are too large to fly.
The average long-dis- tance Thanksgiving trip is 214 miles, compared with 275 miles over the Christmas and New Year’s holiday.
One of the most popular
first Thanksgiving stories recalls the three-day cel- ebration in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1621. Over 200 years later, President Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as a national day of thanksgiving, and in 1941 Congress estab- lished the fourth Thursday in November as a national holiday.
Every Thanksgiving, a group of Native Americans and their sup- porters gather on Cole’s Hill in Plymouth to com- memorate a National Day of Mourning. The flyer for the event in 2006 reads, in part, “Participants in National Day of Mourning honor Native ancestors and the struggles of Native peo- ples to survive today.”
Thanksgiving is an amal- gam of different tradi- tions, including ancient harvest festivals, the reli- gious New England Puritan Thanksgiving, the traditional harvest celebrations of England and New England, and changing political and ideological assumptions of Native Americans.
Since Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving holiday in 1863, Thanksgiving has been observed annually. However, various earlier presidents--including George Washington, John Adams, and James Madison--all urged Americans to observe various periods of thanksgiving.
The first Thanksgiving football game was in 1876.
Americans eat roughly 535 million pounds of turkey on Thanksgiving.
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