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• “Jingle Bells” was originally made to be a Thanksgiving song which celebrates family.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?