A ripe cranberry will bounce.

All turkeys and chickens have wishbones.

Canadians celebrate their own Thanksgiving every October.

Abraham Lincoln declared a national day of Thanksgiving in 1863.

The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was held in 1924.

The average number of calories consumed on Thanksgiving is 4,500.

The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621 over a three-day harvest festival. It included 50 Pilgrims, 90 Wampanoag Indians, and lasted three days. Historians believe that only five women were present.

The football tradition on Thanksgiving began in 1876 with a game between Yale and Princeton. The first NFL games were played on Thanksgiving in 1920 (more on that game in a minute).

Each year, about 46 million turkeys are cooked.

A whopping 68 percent of Americans dislike Thanksgiving dishes like canned cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, and even turkey itself, according to a 2019 Instacart survey

The average cost of Thanksgiving dinner is $53.31 for 10 guests.

 The National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation is a ceremony wherein the president is presented with a live turkey each year. 

In 1989 The first year a president, (George H.W. Bush) officially pardoned a turkey.

The first recorded religious celebration of Thanksgiving took place two years after the first feast in 1621 and was the mark of the end of a two-month drought. 

The average number of guests surrounding a modern Thanksgiving dinner table is 10. 

A whopping 47 percent of Thanksgiving hosts will take time off of work in order to properly prep the feast. 

Thanksgiving has not always been held on the fourth Thursday of the month. In 1939 President Roosevelt moved the holiday back one week to allow more shopping days after Thanksgiving in order to boost the economy.

The average American consumes 229 grams of fat on this holiday! 

Each year Americans eat an estimated total of 50 million pumpkin pies.

The Wampanoag Indians arrived at the first Thanksgiving with an offering of five deer.