Here are some fun Thanksgiving facts that I found at Coolest Holiday Parties.com, called Coolest Thanksgiving Facts! Just click the link to read all the factoids! I just picked a few here!
- Thanksgiving wasn't declared a national holiday until 1941. It was then that Congress decided that every fourth Thursday in November would be Thanksgiving.--that's just odd! I still don't get why it's on the fourth Thursday!
- Turkeys have heart attacks! When the Air Force conducted test runs and breaking the sound barrier, fields of turkeys would literally drop dead!--sooo odd!
- 91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving--I'm in the 9% myself! Yeah...I'm weird!
- Thomas Jefferson thought that Thanksgiving was one of the most ridiculous things that he ever heard of!
- Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the national bird a turkey!--definitely would look odd on the quarter!
- One of the popular symbols of Thanksgiving is corn!--never would've guessed that!
- 50% of Americans will put the stuffing inside of the turkey on Thanksgiving--and once again we are in the the OTHER 50%! Lol.
- Turkeys were one of the first animals in America to be domesticated
- The First Thanksgiving lasted for three days--and Congress decided to short change us I see!
- The Guinness Book of Records marks that the largest turkey weighed 86 lbs and was at the heaviest turkey contest in London, England in 1989--dang!!!
