Turkey fun facts:
- Turkey quite possibly didn’t feature on the first Thanksgiving menu. The records point more towards a duck or a goose.
- Turkeys can get a heart attack. This was discovered when the US Air Force were testing breaking the sound barrier and the huge boom ended up with a field of turkeys dead from fright.
- Black Friday is the busiest day of the year for plumbers. Guess why.
- Benjamin Franklin wanted turkey to become US national animal. He thought the eagle had a “bad moral character”.
- Because of the very harsh conditions during that first year of 1621, many historians believe that only 5 Pilgrim women (out of the 50 Pilgrims in total) were present at the Thanksgiving feast.
- That’s probably how many have survived.
- A wild turkey, when scared, can run 20 mph (32 kph).
- After a stroll on the Moon, the first meal Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin enjoyed was roast turkey (in a foil packet, but still).
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