Did you know that there are four towns in the U.S. who have Turkey in their name such as Turkey, Texas (pop. 465); Turkey Creek, Louisiana (pop. 363); and Turkey, North Carolina (pop. 270) and Turkey Creek, Arizona.?

Abraham Lincoln

 Did you know that more than 200 years later, President Abraham Lincoln declared the final Thursday in November as a national day of thanksgiving?

Did you know that congress finally made Thanksgiving Day an official national holiday in 1941?


Did you know that Sarah Josepha Hale petitioned for a national Thanksgiving holiday for close to 40 years, believing that "Thanksgiving, like the Fourth of July, should be considered a national festival and observed by all our people?

 Did you know that Sarah Josepha Hale, the enormously influential magazine editor and author who waged a tireless campaign to make Thanksgiving a national holiday in the mid-19th century, was also the author of the classic nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb/”

Margaret Cusack

Did you know that in 2001, the U.S. Postal Service issued a commemorative Thanksgiving
stamp. Designed by the artist Margaret Cusack in a style resembling traditional folk-art needlework, it depicted a cornucopia overflowing with fruits and vegetables, under the phrase “We Give Thanks?”

Did you know that the American Automobile Association (AAA) estimated that 90 million Americans traveled 50 miles or more from home over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in 2016?

Did you kn0w according to the U.S. Census Bureau, Minnesota is the top turkey-producing state in America, with a planned production total of 46.5 million in 2011?

Did you know that these Six states—Minnesota, North Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri, Virginia, and Indiana—account for nearly two-thirds of the 248 million turkeys that will be raised in the U.S. this year.?

Did you know that the National Turkey Federation estimated that 46 million turkeys—one fifth of the annual total of 235 million consumed in the United States—were eaten at Thanksgiving?

Cranberry

Did you know that Cranberry production in the U.S. is expected to reach 1 Billion pounds in 2018?

Did you know that Wisconsin, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon and Washington are the top cranberry growing states?

Did you know that Illinois, California, Pennsylvania and New York are the major pumpkin growing states, together they produced 2 billion pounds of pumpkin?

Did you know that the sweet potato is most plentifully produced in North Carolina, which grew over 1 billion pounds of the popular Thanksgiving side dish vegetable?

Did you know that sweet potato powerhouses included California and Mississippi, these top
producing states together generated over 2.4 billion pounds of the sweet potatoes?

Did you know that according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest pumpkin pie ever baked weighed 2,020 pounds and measured just over 12 feet long it was baked on October 8, 2005 by the New Bremen Giant Pumpkin Growers in Ohio?

Did you know that the largest pumpkin pie ingredient, and included 900 pounds of pumpkin, 62 gallons of evaporated milk, 155 dozen eggs, 300 pounds of sugar, 3.5 pounds of salt, 7 pounds of cinnamon, 2 pounds of pumpkin spice and 250 pounds of crust?

Did you know that there are four towns in the U.S. who have Turkey in their name such as Turkey, Texas (pop. 465); Turkey Creek, Louisiana (pop. 363); and Turkey, North Carolina (pop. 270) and Turkey Creek, Arizona.?

Did you know that originally known as Macy’s Christmas Parade—to signify the launch of the

Turkey, Texas

Christmas shopping season—the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade took place in New York City in 1924?

 It was launched by Macy’s employees and featured animals from the Central Park Zoo. Today, some 3 million people attend the annual parade and another 44 million watch it on television.

Did you know that Snoopy has appeared as a giant balloon in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade more times than any other character in history?

 As the Flying Ace, Snoopy made his sixth appearance in the 2006 parade.

The first time the Detroit Lions played football on Thanksgiving Day was in 1934, when they hosted the Chicago Bears at the University of Detroit stadium, in front of 26,000 fans. The NBC radio network broadcast the game on 94 stations across the country–the first national Thanksgiving football broadcast. Since that time, the Lions have played a game every Thanksgiving (except between 1939 and 1944); in 1956, fans watched the game on television for the first time.

Did you know that the day after Thanksgiving is the busiest day for plumbers, according to Roto-Rooter?



Did you know that plumbers experiences a 21 percent increase in calls over the four-day weekend than any other Thursday to Sunday period in the year?

Turkey Talk line

Did you know that Minnesota produces more turkeys than any other state in the U.S., raising close to 50 million in 2016, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture?

Did you know that they have a Turkey Talk-Line hotline from Butterball answers all turkey questions each November and December?

Did you know that the Turkey Talk line began in 1981 with six home economists, who answered 11,000 calls about how to cook a turkey, but since then, the hotline has grown to answer 100,000 calls each season, and include Spanish-speakers, the first male Turkey Talk-Line expert, and email, texting, live chat, and social media platforms. Get more information and learn how to get in touch here?

President George H.W. Bush

Did you know that the first official presidential pardon of a turkey occurred much more recently than most might think: President George
H.W. Bush did it in 1989, and it’s since become an annual tradition?

Did you know that domesticated turkeys cannot fly, although wild turkeys can, for short distances, and at up to 55 miles per hour, and they can also run up to 20 miles per hour?

Did you know that the tradition of
football games on Thanksgiving dates back to 1934, when the Detroit Lions played the Chicago Bears in the first NFL game broadcast nationally?

Did you know that George A. Richards, a radio executive and owner of the Detroit Lions team, wanted to gain the attention of fans with a Thanksgiving Day game?

Did you know that his idea worked, and all 26,000 tickets sold out two weeks before kickoff?

Did you know that the Lions have hosted a Thanksgiving day game each year since?

Did you know that the Dallas Cowboys also began hosting on Thanksgiving in 1966, and a third game was added with rotating matchups in 2006?

Did you know that Americans aren’t the only ones who celebrate Thanksgiving, The first official Thanksgiving in Canada was in 1879, though traditions of honoring the fall harvest predate both the official American and Canadian holidays; the date was moved around until 1957, when Thanksgiving was set as the second Monday of October.?

Swanson

Did you know that TV dinners have Thanksgiving to thank back in 1953, someone at Swanson the first TV dinner was born?
misjudged the number of frozen turkeys it would sell that Thanksgiving -- by 26 TONS! Some industrious soul came up with a brilliant plan: Why not slice up the meat and repackage with some trimmings on the side?Thus,

Did you know that Campbell's soup created green bean casserole for an annual cookbook 50 years ago, It now sells $20 million worth of cream of mushroom soup?

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