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You might not know some of the following:

1.    Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey, and not the eagle, to be our national bird.

2.    Sarah Josepha Hale, a magazine editor and author of "Mary Had A Little Lamb" waged the campaign to make Thanksgiving a national holiday.

3.    The original Macy's parade in New York City in 1924 on Thanksgiving day celebrated Christmas and not Thanksgiving as it market the start of the Christmas shopping season.

4.    Abraham Lincoln set the standard by which we celebrate the holiday.

5.    During the Great Depression Franklin Roosevelt asked Americans to celebrate Thanksgiving a week early to increase time for Christmas shopping and the people did not like it.

6.    Swanson came up with the TV dinner in 1953 out of desperation when it overestimated the demand for turkey for Thanksgiving by 260 tons.

7.    The average person consumes 3,000 calories during Thanksgiving dinner, and other meals and snacks during the day bring the total of calories consumed to between 4,000 and 6,000.  It is said that the original Thanksgiving celebrants consumed only about 550 calories.