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Thanksgiving 2022 – here are some fun facts to share around the dinner table:

The first Thanksgiving was celebrated over a three-day harvest festival in 1621 and included 50 Pilgrims and 90 Wampanoag Indians.
The Thanksgiving menu included not only turkey but venison, duck, goose, oysters, lobster, eel, and fish were also likely served along with pumpkins and cranberries.
Thanksgiving was proclaimed a national holiday on October 3, 1863, by Abraham Lincoln. Sarah Josepha Hale, author of “Mary Had A Little Lamb,” convinced Lincoln to make Thanksgiving a national holiday after writing letters to him for 17 years.
Four towns in the United States are named “turkey” and can be found in Arizona, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Texas.
The playing of football on Thanksgiving day began in 1876 with a game played between Yale and Princeton. NFL games started their tradition in 1920.
The total average number of calories to be consumed per person on Thanksgiving is 4,500 calories.
The history of U.S. presidents pardoning turkeys is patchy. Harry Truman is often credited with being the first president to pardon a turkey, but that’s not quite true. He was the first to receive a ceremonial turkey from the National Turkey Federation – and he had it for dinner. John F. Kennedy was the first to let a Thanksgiving turkey go, followed by Richard Nixon who sent his turkey to a petting zoo. George H.W. Bush is the president who formalized the turkey pardoning tradition in 1989.

BestLifeOnline.com, 35 Thanksgiving Facts to Share With Your Family, https://bestlifeonline.com/thanksgiving-facts