{"id":11228,"date":"2017-11-20T22:25:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T16:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/?p=11228"},"modified":"2018-05-21T15:59:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T10:29:28","slug":"happy-thanksgiving-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enago.com\/academy\/happy-thanksgiving-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanksgiving Day is a federal holiday that is celebrated every year on the fourth Thursday of November in the US. This day also marks the start of the holiday season. It\u00a0originated as a celebration\u00a0of the harvest festival with the first\u00a0official Thanksgiving Day being celebrated in 1621. Back then, this celebration between the Pilgrims and the\u00a0Wampanoag\u00a0tribe went on for three days. However, Thanksgiving Day was only made an official national holiday in 1863 by\u00a0President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War. Traditionally, family and friends celebrate this day with a special meal comprising\u00a0a turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, gravy, pumpkin pie, and vegetables.<\/p>\n

Here are some fun facts about Thanksgiving Day that you might probably not know:<\/p>\n

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  1. The Thanksgiving Parade which is also called the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was originally called the Macy’s Christmas Day Parade but later changed in 1927.<\/li>\n
  2. The\u00a0highlights of a Thanksgiving meal, the turkey and pumpkin pie\u00a0were not even served at the first official Thanksgiving Day! Deer,\u00a0venison, cod, bass, water fowl, and corn were served instead.<\/li>\n
  3. If the Pilgrims had their way, Thanksgiving Day would actually end up being a day of fasting and praying.<\/li>\n
  4. Each US president pardons and spares a turkey from being eaten every year in a ceremony called as the “Presidential Pardon of a Turkey”<\/li>\n
  5. Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be the national bird instead of the bald eagle.<\/li>\n
  6. In the United\u00a0States, there are four places named Turkey. They are in Texas, North Carolina, Arizona and Louisiana.<\/li>\n
  7. The top turkey producing\u00a0state in the US is Minnesota with about 44.5 million birds\u00a0produced in 2016.<\/li>\n
  8. Franklin D. Roosevelt changed the date for Thanksgiving to the second last Thursday of November in order to uplift the\u00a0economy during the Great Depression. This failed miserably and\u00a0started being called “Franksgiving.”<\/li>\n
  9. Originally, the “Jingle Bells” song was a Thanksgiving song but later became quickly associated with the Christmas holiday season.<\/li>\n
  10. About 280 million turkeys are sold in the US for the Thanksgiving celebrations with Californians being the\u00a0largest consumers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The Enago Academy team wishes all its readers a Happy Thanksgiving Day and holiday season!<\/p>\n

    \"Thanksgiving<\/p>\n

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    Thanksgiving Day is a federal holiday that is celebrated every year on the fourth Thursday…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[1379],"ppma_author":[1894],"class_list":["post-11228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-events","tag-thanksgiving-day"],"better_featured_image":{"id":11238,"alt_text":"Thanksgiving Day","caption":"","description":"The Enago Academy team wishes all its readers a Happy Thanksgiving and holiday season!","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":853,"height":330,"hwstring_small":"height='50' 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