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When does Thanksgiving occur every year?
The fourth Thursday in November
Turkeys are herbivores
False: They occasionally eat insects, amphibians, and even crabs.
America's most popular pie
Apple
The pigment that is absent from leaves in the fall
Clorophyll
When does Canadian Thanksgiving occur every year?
The second Monday in October
Big Bird's (from Sesame Street) feathers are turkey feathers
true, there are 4,000 of them
Where mashed potatoes originate
United Kingdom
The percentage of America's apples grown in Washington
42%
The year the Pilgrims had their harvest meal
1621
The heaviest pumpkin ever grown weighed 1,624 pounds
False: It weighed 2624.6 pounds
The diameter of the largest pumpkin pie ever made
20 feet
The Greek goddess of agriculture and the harvest
Demeter
The year of the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
1924
Benjamin Franklin argued that the turkey should be America's national bird rather than the eagle
True
The percentage of people who eat turkey on Thanksgiving
90%
Name one vegetable (other than a pumpkin) that was once carved into jack-o-lanterns
Potatoes, beets, turnips, and other root vegetables
True or false: Thanksgiving has always occurred on the same day
False: Franklin Roosevelt suggested that it be moved to the second-to-last Thursday of November to increase the length of the Christmas shopping season.
On Google Translate, there is an option to translate your desired words into the language of turkeys
True!
The percentage of cranberries eaten on Thanksgiving in America
20%
What jack-o-lanterns may have represented when they were first created
Severed heads of your enemies