Turkey, stuffing or dressing..cranberry sauce,,.pies,,,calories...but who cares!
It is time for that Wonderful Annual Holiday Tradition of eating and being Thankful - called ...Thanksgiving...
For those of you who enjoy trivia, the website, All Parenting provided some Thanksgiving Quick Facts "Speed Round" shown below..
These facts will be great to use while your enjoying the day with your family.
·
Benjamin
Franklin wanted the turkey, not the eagle, to be the national bird.
.
·
Neil
Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's first meal in space after walking on the
moon was foil packets with roasted
turkey.
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The
heaviest turkey on record, according to
the Guinness Book of Records,
weighed 86 pounds.
·
Californians
consume the most turkey in the
U.S. on Thanksgiving Day!
·
Female
turkeys (called hens) do not gobble. Only male
turkeys gobble.
·
The
average turkey for Thanksgiving weighs 15 pounds.
·
Campbell's
soup created green bean casserole for
an annual cookbook 50
years ago. It now sells $20 million worth of cream of
mushroom soup.
Now, let's talk about the Logue Library...
If you search on the topic of Thanksgiving you will receive over 3,100 results in our catalog which includes 141 eBooks and 119 Print books on this topic.
Some of our books include:
Feel free to comment on this blog.
What book listed above would you most likely read?
Posted by J. Presley, Systems Management Librarian
