The Pilgrims held their Thanksgiving feast in October of 1621. They invited their neighbors, the Wampanoag Indians, who had helped them learn to farm. The feast lasted three days.
Mashed potatoes, pumpkin pies, and cranberries were not foods eaten at the first Thanksgiving's feast. Lobster, rabbit, chicken, fish, squash, beans, carrots, eggs, and goat cheese were some of the food that were at the feast. The pilgrims didn't use forks; they ate with spoons, knives, and their fingers.
Thanksgiving Day was not made an official holiday until 1941, more than 300 years after the first Thanksgiving. It is always the 4th Thursday in November.
Thomas Jefferson thought the idea of a day of Thanksgiving was "the most ridiculous idea I've ever heard."
More than 45 million turkeys are cooked and eaten in the United States at Thanksgiving.
Every year, the president chooses one turkey to "pardon" letting it live out its days on a farm, rather than being eaten for Thanksgiving dinner.
Turkeys have great hearing, but no external ears. They see in color, and have very sharp vision. They have a poor sense of smell, but an excellent sense of taste. Turkeys sometimes sleep in trees. Unfortunately, they can drown if they look up in a rain shower and can even have heart attacks.
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