Re: The Noodle Compound
RANDOM THANKSGIVING FACTS!!!
Columbus thought that the land he discovered was connected to India, where peacocks are found in considerable number. And he believed turkeys were a type of peacock (they're actually a type of pheasant). So he named them "tuka", which is "peacock" in the Tamil language of India.
Turkeys can drown if they look up when it's raining!
Congress did not declare Thanksgiving a national holiday until 1941.
The average person consumes 4,500 calories on Thanksgiving Day.
According to popular legend, the male "Tom" turkey got its name from Benjamin Franklin. Franklin named it after Thomas Jefferson when he would not allow it to be the national bird
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Minnesota is the top turkey producing state in America, with a planned production total of 45.5 million.
Sarah Josepha Hale, the author who waged a tireless campaign to make Thanksgiving a national holiday in the mid-nineteenth century, was also the author of the nursery rhyme "Mary had a Little Lamb."
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest pumpkin pie ever baked weighed 2,020 pounds and measured just over 12 feet long. It was baked on October 8, 2005 by the New Bremen Giant Pumpkin Growers in Ohio, and included 900 pounds of pumpkin, 62 gallons of evaporated milk, 155 dozen eggs, 300 pounds of sugar, 3.5 pounds of salt, 7 pounds of cinnamon, 2 pounds of pumpkin spice, and 250 pounds of crust.
Snoopy has appeared in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade more times than any other character in history. As the Flying Ace, Snoopy made his sixth appearance in the 2006 parade.
The first time the Detroit Lions played football on Thanksgiving Day was in 1934, when they hosted the Chicago Bears at the University of Detroit stadium, in front of 26,000 fans. The NBC radio network broadcast the game on 94 stations across the country . Since that time, the Lions have played a game every Thanksgiving (except between 1939 and 1944); in 1956, fans watched the game on television for the first time.