I enjoy Thanksgiving, I also enjoy amusing facts. I thought why not throw down some amusing Thanksgiving facts. Please see at least 5 Amusing Thanksgiving Facts below.
- Black Friday is the busiest day for Roto-Rooter, a major plumbing service. They are called in to clean up “overwhelmed” sewer systems.
- The average American will consume about 4,500 calories on Thanksgiving Day, or about 3,000 for the meal and an additional 1,500 for snacking.
- The song “Jingle Bells” was originally written as a Thanksgiving song.
- Now a Thanksgiving dinner staple, cranberries were actually used by Native Americans to treat arrow wounds and to dye clothes.
- Americans eat roughly 535 million pounds of turkey on Thanksgiving.
- The flap of skin hanging off of a turkey‘s chin is called a “wattle.” The wrinkly thing hanging over the turkey’s beak is called a “snood.”
- The best way to determine if a cranberry is ripe is to see if it can bounce.
- It takes 14 slices of pumpkin pie to equal 4,500 calories.
- Stuffing dates back to the Roman Empire, where the ancient cookbook Apicius de re Coquinaria contained recipes for stuffed chicken, rabbit, pork and more.
- Stove Top stuffing sells around 60 million boxes of stuffing around Thanksgiving every year.
- The first Thanksgiving football game was in 1876.
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