Roast turkey is synonymous with Thanksgiving celebrations but we hate to burst your bubble but this iconic dish isn’t actually traditional to the holiday at all. Instead, the original pilgrims most likely didn’t even have turkey on the holiday. Instead, they probably had goose, duck, swans or even pigeons!

With all the cooking, cleaning, priming and general havoc that goes on to get a Thanksgiving meal on the table it’s no wonder that the kitchen feels the brunt of the burden. In fact, Black Friday is actually the busiest day of the year for plumbers, who are left to clean up blocked pipes, post-Thanksgiving.

In the 1800’s, “Black Friday” refereed to stock market crashes. The actual “Black Friday” stock market scare happened in 1869, and it was due to the suddenly falling prices of gold. These days, however, this post-Thanksgiving event is a massive shopping spree for those looking to get great discounts.

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The first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day festival did not include giant balloons and floats. Instead, the parade was fronted by animals from the Central Park Zoo. Additionally, the balloons weren’t deflated and stored away for the next year like they do now. Instead, they were cut off at the end of the parade and left to float away!

This one’s a strange one but if true, start making some pumpkin pies to impress the men in your life. According to a study conducted by the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation , men find the smell of pumpkin pie to be sexually arousing. Apparently, the sweet, spicy aroma of pumpkin is male aphrodisiac. Who knew?!

Domesticated turkeys that are reared in farms for popular consumption can’t actually fly. This is in total opposition to their wilder cousins who aren’t bred for weight and are actually lighter and can take to the air easily. Wild turkeys also fly up into tress at night to sleep unlike their fatter farm-reared cousins.

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While Thanksgiving is predominantly an American holiday, other countries celebrate it too, notably Canada. But unlike the US, which celebrates it on the fourth Thursday of November, Canadians ring in the thanks more than a month earlier on the first Monday of October.

Apparently Ben Franklin liked turkeys so much that he wanted them to be our national bird, instead of the bald eagle. He also said in a letter to his daughter written in 1784 that he thought eagles has “a bad moral character”. How different the Congressional Great Seal would look today if his wish was granted!

“Jingle Bells” is used at Christmas, but it was originally a Thanksgiving song. Composed by James Pierpont, in 1857, it was performed by children at a Thanksgiving concert. It was so popular that it was used again at Christmas, and has been associated with that holiday ever since.

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We’ve got great news for your waistlines: Even though Thanksgiving is a time to indulge and stuff ourselves with great food, don’t worry…that turkey you’re having second helpings of is actually healthy for you. A 3-ounce serving of chicken contains 240 calories but the same amount of turkey contains just 190.