Thanksgiving Trivia Fun
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- 23 Nov, 2017
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What comes to your mind when you think of Thanksgiving? The big fat golden-brown turkey? Grandma’s pumpkin pie? Or the oh-so-nice cranberries and corn-on-the-cob? Well well, all these ARE a major part of the Thanksgiving holiday. But there’s even more to this wonderful occasion of Thanksgiving! The holiday of Thanksgiving is a time to celebrate […]
What comes to your mind when you think of Thanksgiving?
The big fat golden-brown turkey? Grandma’s pumpkin pie? Or the oh-so-nice cranberries and corn-on-the-cob?
Well well, all these ARE a major part of the Thanksgiving holiday. But there’s even more to this wonderful occasion of Thanksgiving!
The holiday of Thanksgiving is a time to celebrate the beauty and bounty around us, our marvelous friends and family, the gift of their love and many more such good things that we are thankful for !
Now to share some interesting trivia associated with the Thanksgiving holiday.
Like most trivia, the Thanksgiving trivia are just as much a fun read.
Check these out:
- The first Thanksgiving celebration is believed to be held by the Plymouth Pilgrims in the Fall of 1621.
- The credit for making Thanksgiving a national holiday is given to one lady magazine editor called Sarah Josepha Hale.
- The name of the ship in which the Puritans came is known as Mayflower. And the drink they had with them was beer.
- A turkey below sixteen weeks of age is called a fryer.
- Benjamin Franklin fought hard to make the wild turkey the national bird of America instead of the bald eagle, which he found to be a coward.
- A nest of turkey eggs is known as a clutch.
- When a tom turkey (male turkey) gobbles, it can be heard from as far as a mile.
- Now this one’s quite a thoughtful trivia-if turkeys gobble everywhere in the world, you won’t hear a turkey gobble in Turkey. The Turkish say that turkeys glu glu.
- Firkee is the Native American name for turkeys.
- It’s often said that turkeys make a ‘turk turk turk’ noise when they are frightened. So they are called ‘turkeys’.
- Turkeys have outstanding visual precision, a great hearing and taste. But are famously poor on smell.
- Another groovy Thanksgiving trivia as also a good piece of GK is that there’s a dance form dedicated to the name of the turkey. It’s called the Turkey Trot. This is one dance which consists of short, agile and perky steps.
- A full-grown turkey has about 3500 feathers approximately.
- The US President George Washington proclaimed the first “National Day of Thanksgiving”.
- The first Thanksgiving celebration lasted for three days and consisted of both games and grub.
- Governor William Bradford is the man, a leader of the Pilgrims, who invited the neighboring Wampanoag to their feast of the first Thanksgiving.
- This Thanksgiving trivia may just get you lucky. The wishbone of the turkey is the one part which is believed to be a good luck charm on Thanksgiving.
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Sean Carter writes on holidays, Thanksgiving Day and world events. He also writes on family, relationships, Christmas, religion, love and friendship. He is a writer with special interest in ecard industry and writes for 123greetings.com He is an active blogger at Thanksgiving Blog
Article Source: https://EzineArticles.com/expert/Sean_Carter/42553
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