Let's Talk Turkey: Thanksgiving Facts That Everyone Oughta Know! Number 13

We thought you might all like to know a few facts this Thanksgiving that you can share with your families and friends in those awkward silent moments...yes, you know what we're talking about! Avoid those awkward moments and fill them with these facts!

Contrary to popular belief, even though wild turkeys were around during the first Thanksgiving feast, they were not served.  Instead, the Native American Indians and Plymouth colonists feasted on various seafood, deer, corn, eggs, squash, spices, popcorn and squashed cranberries.

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Let's Talk Turkey: Thanksgiving Facts That Everyone Oughta Know! Number 12

We thought you might all like to know a few facts this Thanksgiving that you can share with your families and friends in those awkward silent moments...yes, you know what we're talking about! Avoid those awkward moments and fill them with these facts!
Cross-border travelers can celebrate Thanksgiving twice, because Canada celebrates its own Thanksgiving Day the second Monday in October.

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Let's Talk Turkey: Thanksgiving Facts That Everyone Oughta Know! Number 10

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For many U.S. citizens, Thanksgiving without football is as unthinkable as the Fourth of July without fireworks.  NBC Radio broadcast the first national Thanksgiving Day game in 1934, when the Detroit Lions hosted the Chicago Bears.  Except for a respite during World War II, the Lions have played—usually badly—every Thanksgiving Day since. In this year's game, the 71st, they take on another team with a bit of a Thanksgiving theme—the New England Patriots.


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Let's Talk Turkey: Thanksgiving Facts That Everyone Oughta Know! Number 9

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Wild turkeys can run some 10 to 20 miles (16 to 32 kilometers) an hour and fly in bursts at 55 miles (89 kilometers) an hour. Domesticated turkeys can't fly at all.
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Let's Talk Turkey: Thanksgiving Facts That Everyone Oughta Know! Number 8

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Pilgrims had been familiar with turkeys before they landed in the Americas.  That's because early European explorers of the New World had returned to Europe with turkeys in tow after encountering them at Native American settlements. Native Americans had domesticated the birds centuries before European contact.

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Let's Talk Turkey: Thanksgiving Facts That Everyone Oughta Know! Number 6

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It's the 1621 Plimoth Thanksgiving that's linked to the birth of our modern holiday. The truth is the first "real" Thanksgiving happened two centuries later.  Everything we know about the three-day Plimoth gathering comes from a description in a letter wrote by Edward Winslow, leader of the Plimoth Colony, in 1621.  The letter had been lost for 200 years and was rediscovered in the 1800s.  In 1841 Boston publisher Alexander Young printed Winslow's brief account of the feast and added his own twist, dubbing the 1621 feast the "First Thanksgiving."  In Winslow's short letter, it was clear that [the 1621 feast] was not something that was supposed to be repeated again and again. It wasn't even a Thanksgiving, which in the 17th century was a day of fasting. It was a harvest celebration.  But after its mid-1800s appearance, Young's designation caught on—to say the least.

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Let's Talk Turkey: Thanksgiving Facts That Everyone Oughta Know! Number 5

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The first "real" U.S. Thanksgiving wasn't until the 1800s.  U.S. President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving Day a national holiday in 1863. He was probably swayed in part by magazine editor Sarah Josepha Hale—the author of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb"—who had suggested Thanksgiving become a holiday, historians say.

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Let's Talk Turkey: Thanksgiving Facts That Everyone Oughta Know! Number 4

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But if you overeat at Thanksgiving dinner, there's a price to be paid for all this plenty: the Thanksgiving "food coma." The post-meal fatigue may be real, but the condition is giving turkeys a bad rap.  Contrary to myth, the amount of the organic protein tryptophan in most turkeys isn't responsible for drowsiness.  Instead, scientists blame booze, the sheer caloric size of an average feast, or just plain-old relaxing after stressful work schedules.

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Let's Talk Turkey: Thanksgiving Facts That Everyone Oughta Know! Number 3

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U.S. farmers will also produce 735 million pounds (333 million kilograms) of cranberries, which, like turkeys, are native to the Americas. The top producers are Wisconsin and Massachusetts.

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Let's Talk Turkey: Thanksgiving Facts That Everyone Oughta Know! Number 2

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About 46 million turkeys will end up on U.S. dinner tables this Thanksgiving—or about 736 million pounds (334 million kilograms) of turkey meat, according to estimates from the National Turkey Federation.
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