Fun Thanksgiving Holiday Facts to Share with Your Relatives
November 27th, 2008 categories: Northwest Arkansas Living
While you’re munching on sweet potato casserole or pouring gravy over your mashed potatoes this weekend, you’ve got to have something uplifting and interesting to talk about with your relatives. Why not impress them with some thanksgiving Trivia!?
- Congress officially made Thanksgiving Day a national holiday in 1941.
- Minnesota is the top turkey producing state in the U.S. with a planned production of 49 million birds in 2008. Six states - Minnesota, North Carolina, Arkansas, Virginia, Missouri, and Indiana – will produce two-thirds of the 271 million turkeys raised in the U.S. this year.
- 46 million turkeys are estimated to be consumed on Thanksgiving this year.
- 88 percent of Americans say they eat turkey at Thanksgiving.
- The average weight of a turkey purchased for Thanksgiving is 15 lbs.
- The first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade took place in 1924. 3 million people attend the parade annually and another 44 million watch it on television.
- Snoopy has appeared as a ballon the Parade more times than any other character in history. He just made his 7th (I think) appearance as a flying ace this year in 2008.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Enjoy your time off work, your time with your families, and your time to stuff your face. I hope these little factual snippets help you in your familial conversation.
