The first people to celebrate Thanksgiving were the Plymouth Pilgrims.

The Wampanoag Indians taught Plymouth Pilgrims how to cultivate the land and that’s why they were invited to the First Thanksgiving.

The First Thanksgiving between Wampanoag Indians and Plymouth Pilgrims lasted three days.

The First Thanksgiving feast did not include mashed potatoes, pumpkin pies, corn on the cob, and cranberries.

The pilgrims did not eat with spoons, knives, and their fingers, they used their hands.

Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be the national bird of the United States.

On October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the 'Thanksgiving Proclamation’ which officially set the last Thursday of November as Thanksgiving.

The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade began in the 1920's.

Over 280 million turkeys are sold for Thanksgiving in the United States.

The average American eats between 16 - 18 pounds of turkey every year.

The largest state of consumers of turkey in the United States is California.

The average weight of a Thanksgiving Day is 15 pounds.

The heaviest turkey ever raised and recorded was 86 pounds.

At maturity, turkeys will have 3,500 feathers.