Here are some fun facts about Thanksgiving that you can share this year at the dinner table.
- The most common and widely used story of Thanksgiving is the three-day feast between the Wampanoag Native Americans and the Plymouth Colony settlers in November 1621. They had the feast in celebration of a week-long harvest celebration, and it took place in what we now know as Massachusetts.
- In the U.S., about 46 million turkeys are eaten every year. The estimated Thanksgiving meal has around 2,500-4,500 calories.
- Every year on Thanksgiving, the Dallas Cowboys and the Detroit Lions play for the start of the NFL holiday season.
- Roughly 75% of Thanksgiving meals include mashed potatoes, which is ranked the best side dish in 22 different states.
- Thanksgiving each year always falls on the fourth Thursday of November, and the day after Thanksgiving is always Black Friday.
- Thanksgiving was declared a national holiday on October 3, 1863, by Abraham Lincoln.
- The song “Jingle Bells” was originally made to be a Thanksgiving song, but eventually got turned into a Christmas song.
- Nine in every 10 Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, and roughly 45% participate in both Friendsgiving and Thanksgiving.
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