Thanksgiving Day

THANKSGIVING DAY Turkey Bits --Turkey was not served at the first Thanksgiving. -It was, however, served foK the first meal on the moon. -A turkey's 'beard is actually its chest hair. -Benjamin Franklin thought the national bird should be the turkey Canada Us SMTWTFS SMTWTFS Second Monday in Oct. Fourth Thursday in Nov. Population# 309mil Peopie in the US 248mil Turkeys in the US Bread Basket mil People in Turkey 7oWater 2.01m 60% 90% Bushels of wheat grown in the US/yr pilgrim purmpkin --Sweet potatoes have been around sihce prehistoric times. North Carolina is the biggest producer of sweet potatoes in the US,-210 million 'Ibs a year Sweet potatoes and yams, whire commonly confused, are not botanically related. It's said that when Christopher Columbus landed in North America, he thought turkeys were peaccks from India, so he called them tuka, which means peacock" in the Tamil language of India Socialstudiesdc.com