Canada's Thanksgiving is held on the second Monday in October.
Israel has the highest consumption of turkey per capita: 27 lbs.
In the US, about 280 million turkeys are sold for the Thanksgiving celebrations.
There is no official reason or declaration for the use of turkey. They just happened to be the most plentiful meat available at the time of the first Thanksgiving in 1621, starting the tradition.
Thanksgiving remained a custom unsanctified by law until President Roosevelt signed a bill on 26 November 1941 that established the fourth Thursday in November as the national Thanksgiving public holiday.
Turkeys have heart attacks. When the Air Force was conducting test runs and breaking the sound barrier, fields of turkeys would drop dead.
Turkeys can drown if they look up when it is raining.
A spooked turkey can run at speeds up to 20 miles per hour.
They can also burst into flight approaching speeds between 50-55 mph in a matter of seconds
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
3 comments:
that's hilarious about the thanksgiving dinner being consumed in 12 min and the half times!
My daughter Sarah says they need to outlaw Cranberry sauce - period. Brenda
I actually knew the one about them drowning. First week in Dec sounds good to me--Thursday is a no kids morning.
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