Turkey was introduced to Italy, France and England by New World Explorers in the 1500's.

Pilgrims were likely very familiar with raising and eating turkey when they arrived in America.

Thanksgiving was proclaimed a national holiday by President Lincoln in 1863.

President Franklin Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving Day forward one week in 1939.

Benjamin Franklin proposed the turkey as the official bird of the United States. He  wrote to his daughter, referring to the eagle's "bad moral character," saying, "I wish the bald  eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country! The turkey is a  much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America."

According to the National Turkey Federation, 270 million turkeys were raised in 1998, 45 million of those turkeys were eaten at Thanksgiving, 22 million at Christmas and 19 million at Easter.

91% of Americans eat turkey for Thanksgiving dinner.

Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin sat down to foil food packets containing roasted turkey and all of the trimmings for their first meal on the moon!

Only tom turkeys gobble. (Hen turkeys make a clicking noise

)Domesticated turkeys cannot fly. Wild turkeys can fly for short distances up to 55 miles per hour and can run 20 miles per hour.

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