Big Dave’s 5 Nuggets Of Knowledge For Your Noggin’ (11/25/21): Thanksgiving Edition
November 25, 2021 5:45AM CST
Dave Hilton
Here are Big Dave’s 5 Random Facts: Thanksgiving Edition for your Thursday – November 25th, 2021. Let’s learn something together:
- Abraham Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday on October 3rd, 1863. Sarah Josepha Hale is credited with convincing him to do it. She’s also the woman who wrote the nursery rhyme“Mary Had a Little Lamb”.
- There are two towns in the United States named “Turkey” . . . in Texas and North Carolina. And two named “Turkey Creek” . . . in Arizona and Louisiana.
- The average number of calories consumed on Thanksgiving is 4,500. (But seriously, if that’s the over-under . . . I’m going to have to take the OVER.)
- The original TV dinner was the result of a Thanksgiving miscalculation by Swanson in 1953. The company was left with 260 tons of frozen turkey following the holiday, and a salesman suggested packaging the excess product into trays . . . with some traditional sides . . . and selling them as “TV dinners.”
- According to USDA, the top turkey producing states are Minnesota, North Carolina, Arkansas, Indiana, Missouri, Virginia, Iowa, and California.
Be sure to use one of these little tidbits in your life this Holiday weekend!
(Wiki / Wiki / The Manual / Smithsonian / USDA)
More about:
