Eating a feast, watching football, and spending time with family are classic thanksgiving activities.

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However, only male turkeys make this sound. Web photograph courtesy of the national gallery of art. The idea of an annual harvest celebration also dates back to ancient greece.

Web 45 fun thanksgiving facts 1. We eat a lot of turkeys each thanksgiving, americans eat about 45 million turkeys. In fact, they had over 260 tons of unsold turkey on hand.

Web so, given that there are five weeks in november, the holiday can sometimes arrive as early as november 22, or as late as november 28. Only six runners participated in the race that year. Web stories see all featured how the first thanksgiving college football game kicked off a holiday tradition in 1876, yale beat princeton before a sparse crowd.

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Gobble, gobble (or not) the gobble sound turkeys are famous for is how they got their nickname. In 1863, president abraham lincoln designated the last thursday in. Squanto squanto, also known as tisquantum, was a native american from the patuxet tribe who was vital to the pilgrims during their first winter in the new world.