Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Happy Thanksgiving!



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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