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-In the United States, there are four towns named “Turkey.” They are found in Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, and North Carolina. -The average number of calories consumed on Thanksgiving is 4,500. -More than 100,000 turkey-cooking questions are called into the Butterball Turkey Hotline each November and December. -Football became a tradition on Thanksgiving in 1876 with a game between Yale and Princeton. NFL did not join in on the tradition until 1920. -More than 54 million Americans are expected to travel during the Thanksgiving holiday this year. -The woman behind "Mary Had a Little Lamb" is also responsible for Thanksgiving's recognition as a national holiday. The writer and editor Sarah Josepha Hale convinced President Abraham Lincoln to officially declare Thanksgiving a national holiday. -The very first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade did not feature any balloons. Instead it featured animals from the Central Park Zoo. -In 1939, Thanksgiving was celebrated on the third Thursday in November, instead of the fourth. -A Thanksgiving mix-up inspired the first TV dinners. In 1953, a Swanson employee accidentally ordered a shipment of Thanksgiving turkeys that was 260 tons of turkey. To get rid of all the food, a salesman Gerry Thomas, got his idea from the prepared foods served on airplanes. He came up with the idea of filling 5,000 aluminum trays with the turkey, 98% of these prepared meals were a hit with American families. -About 46 million turkeys are cooked each year. Some will consume 229 grams of fat on Thanksgiving. -Only male turkeys have the ability to gobble. -Turkeys are partially named after the country. During the time of the Ottoman Empire, a bird called the guinea fowl, which has a strong resemblance to the American turkey was imported to Europe from its native North Africa. Because the birds came from Turkish lands, Europeans called them turkey-cock and turkey-hen. When settlers came to America, they began sending similar-looking birds back to Europe, they called them turkeys out of familiarity. -8 out of 10 Americans prefer the Thanksgiving seconds over their first helping. -50 million pumpkin pies are eaten on Thanksgiving.
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