Thanksgiving is one of the most celebrated holidays in America. We celebrate it on the last Thursday in November. It’s a time when we celebrate family and friends eating turkey and stuffing. But did you know…..
Turkey was not eaten at the first Thanksgiving.Some of the first foods were venison, bass, and cornbread were originally eaten.
“Jingle Bells” was originally made to be a Thanksgiving song which celebrates family.
46 million turkeys are eaten every year on Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving leftovers are where the idea of tv dinners came from.
The day after Thanksgiving is the busiest day of the year for plumbers because people put oil and everything else down the garbage disposal.
The first Thanksgiving was held in 1621 Plymouth Massachusetts.
The Macy’s Thanksgiving day parade began in 1924 in New York city.
In the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade, it originally featured animals from the central zoo though balloons eventually replaced them.
Thanksgiving is the busiest travel day of the year in the US millions of people travel to visit family and friends on Wednesday before Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving became an official holiday in 1863 president Abraham Lincoln declared thanksgiving a national holiday.
The tradition of the presidential turkey pardon, each year the US president pardons a live turkey sparing it from being served as dinner.
Canada celebrates its own thanksgiving on the second Monday in October but it’s still with similar traditions of family gathering and a feast.
What other facts do you know about Thanksgiving?