9 Thanksgiving Facts

Did  you know...

1. Mashed potatoes, pumpkin pies, popcorn, milk, corn on the cob, and cranberries were not foods present on the first Thanksgiving's feast table. 
2. The pilgrims didn't use forks; they ate with spoons, knives, and their fingers.
3. The first Thanksgiving celebration lasted three days.
4. The annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade tradition began in the 1920's.
5. In the US, about 280 million turkeys are sold for the Thanksgiving celebrations.
6. Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States.
7. Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States, where it is the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season.
8. Thanksgiving football games began with Yale versus Princeton in 1876.
9. Thanksgiving Day is actually the busiest travel day, even more so than the day before Thanksgiving, as most people believe.

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