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Spice up your typical Thanksgiving meal by sharing some fun and fascinating facts with your friends and family!
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  1. The first Thanksgiving was held in the autumn of 1621 and included 50 Pilgrims and 90 Wampanoag Indians and lasted three days.
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  2. Thanksgiving didn’t become a national holiday until over 200 years later!
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  3. No turkey on the menu at the first Thanksgiving: Historians say that no turkey was served at the first Thanksgiving! What was on the men? Deer or venison, ducks, geese, oysters, lobster, eel and fish. They probably ate pumpkins, but no pumpkin pies. They also didn’t eat mashed potatoes or cranberry relish, but they probably ate cranberries.
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  4. Abraham Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday on October 3, 1863. Sarah Joseph Hale, the woman who wrote “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” convinced Lincoln to make Thanksgiving a national holiday after writing letters for 17 years.
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  5. The average number of calories consumed on Thanksgiving is 4,500.
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  6. The tradition of football on Thanksgiving began in 1876 with a game between Yale and Princeton. The first NFL games were played on Thanksgiving in 1920.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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