Happy Thanksgiving--All the Best Holiday Facts!

• The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Macy's Day) started in 1924, and has been shown at 9:00am every Thanksgiving morning since then.
• Thanksgiving's name comes from the day where Pilgrims gave thanks for everything they had in their new lives!
• The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in Plymouth, Massachusetts in the year 1621. However, it did not become a nation holiday until Abraham Lincoln encouraged this. He was not appeased until 1941, when Thanksgiving was made a national holiday and was printed on calendars nationwide.
• There is an American Thanksgiving postage stamp which was issued in 2001. 
• People celebrate Thanksgiving in China, Rome, Brazil, Korea, Canada, and America.  (this fact was posted after much debate so if you find something is incorrect or missing please let me know!) However it is proven that each country celebrates it on a different day.
• Thanksgiving is always celebrated on the last Thursday of November, so unlike Christmas and other holidays, Thanksgiving does not have a "set" date.
• Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be the national turkey of America because he believed Thanksgiving was pretty much the most important American holiday. He told people the eagle has bad moral character.
• Do you eat cranberries at Thanksgiving? To check if your cranberries are ripe, bounce them on a clean floor.
• Thanksgiving is rumoured to have brought the creation of TV dinners.
• America eats the weight of Singapore in turkey every Thanksgiving! That either means Singapore is one skinny country, or America just needs a serious diet plan.

Many people believe that a normal Thanksgiving should go something like this:

9:00: watch the parade!
11:00: begin cooking the food
3:00: eat the food
3:45: THE PIE!
4:00: spend the rest of the day hanging out with the family and friends and watching football

I'm going to take this time to share with you two graphs derived from Thanksgiving Tweets about what kind and how much food is being eaten on Thanksgiving. Then there is a separate graph for the pie!

Are any of these traditional Thanksgiving foods going to be on YOUR table this year?

What kind of pie do you eat on Thanksgiving? *coughcough...apple!*