American
Thanksgiving is celebrated on the 4th Thursday of November. This year
Thanksgiving will fall on Thursday November 27, 2014.

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TURKEY TRIVIA

Here are

some fun facts to share around theThanksgiving table!! Did you know...

The first meal on the moon by

astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, in foil packets,

was a roast turkey dinner!
Benjamin Franklin wanted our national

bird to be the wild turkey instead of the eagle.
Scientists have found turkey fossils

that are 10 million years old.
Male turkeys are called Toms.

Female turkeys are called Hens. A baby turkey is called a Poult.
A large group of turkeys is called a

flock. A nest of turkey eggs is called a clutch.
Only Tom turkeys gobble. Female

turkeys make a clicking sound.
Domesticated (farm) turkeys can't fly,

but wild turkeys can fly for short distances, up to 55 miles per

hour. Wild turkeys can also run, up to 25 miles per hour.
Full-grown turkeys have about 3,500

feathers!
Turkey gobbles can be heard from as far

as a mile away.
95% of Americans eat turkey on

Thanksgiving. They eat 535 pounds of it!
The Pilgrims most likely ate turkey on

the first Thanksgiving.
In Turkey, instead of "gobble,

gobble", people say turkeys say

"glu glu."