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Thanksgiving Day Trivia
-The first Thanksgiving feast was in 1621.
-The Wampanoag tribe was the first Native American tribe to
celebrate with the colonists.
-Benjamin Franklin lobbied to make the turkey the national
symbol.
-Abraham Lincoln specified that Thanksgiving would fall on the
last Thursday of November.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt moved the holiday to the fourth Thursday
in November to create a longer Christmas shopping season.
-90% of American homes will eat turkey on Thanksgiving.
-Evidence shows that the turkey has been around for over 10
million years.
-The largest turkey ever
raised was 86 pounds.
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