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Happy Thanksgiving ! And now for some things you may not have known about the holiday ... 1. The average person will consume 4,500 calories that day, 2. President Lincoln was 1st to declare last Thurs of Nov as Thanksgiving, a national holiday, 3. Thomas Jefferson thought the idea of Thanksgiving was the most ridiculous he ever heard, 4. George Washington said America should have a Day of Thanksgiving on Thursday, Nov 26, 1789, though it was not yet recognized as a national holiday, 5. Black Friday is not the busiest shopping day of the year, the Saturday before Christmas is, 6. The author of Mary Had A Little Lamb, Sarah Josepha Hale, had a major hand in making Thanksgiving a national holiday. Before then it was celebrated on different days, by different states, or not at all, mainly being a New England holiday, 7. The Annual Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade began in 1924, and finally, 8. Venison was the most common meat at the original Thanksgiving. Now you have something more than politics and how your parents ruined your life to talk about at the dinner table : D
Posted on: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 10:55:36 +0000

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