Turkey Trivia
Who’s not hungry on Thanksgiving? The turkey, because he’s already been stuffed!

Here are some fun facts about Thanksgiving’s special guest and the holiday that made turkeys famous. 

- The largest turkey ever raised weighed 86 pounds.
- Sesame Street's Big Bird costume was made with 4,000 large feathers all originating from 45 pound turkeys.
- Turkey is the main course at Thanksgiving meals in 90% of U.S households.
- The average weight of a turkey when purchased is 15 pounds.
- Benjamin Franklin, who proposed the turkey as the official United States' bird, was not happy when the bald eagle was chosen instead. In a letter to his daughter, Franklin referred to the eagle's "bad moral character," and said: "For my own part, I wish the Eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country," and "For in Truth, the Turkey is in comparison a much more respectable bird and withal a true original native of America.”
- According to the National Turkey Foundation, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin sat down to eat their first meal on the moon, their foil food packets contained roasted turkey.
- Thanksgiving was first declared a national holiday in 1863 by Abraham Lincoln, who determined that it would be the last Thursday of November.
- In 1941, Congress set the national holiday of Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of every November. This reversed a decision by President Roosevelt to celebrate Thanksgiving on the third Thursday to give people more time to shop for Christmas.