3 Interesting Facts About Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving is a day on which people prepare the whole year. Some prepare it to schedule dinner with family, and some visit their friends and family. Whatever the reason might be, people want it to be the best day they can remember and make enough memories to talk about it until next year. So let me tell you three interesting facts about thanksgiving; give you a few things to talk about this thanksgiving.

Debate on when was the first thanksgiving was celebrated.

1621 is the date most people know. But there is another date that is said to be the actual year when the first thanksgiving was celebrated; it is 1541.

Turkey and the White House.

Until the 1940s, farmers used to bring their turkeys as a gift to the White House on thanksgiving for the President. It was a tradition until Mr. J.F.Kendy released all the turkeys he received and said, “This is my way of saying thanks to these birds.” Since then, releasing turkeys has also become a tradition.

The first thanksgiving was not called “thanksgiving”.

Most people know that the first meal between the Native Americans and puritans. But for puritans, the day of thanksgiving was the day of fasting while giving thanks to God b praying.