A little Thanksgiving trivia

I was familiar with a few, but others were new. The last slide (about the name "turkey") conflicts with the story that I've always heard which had something to do with a shipment of the birds arriving in port and local confusion over what the birds were and where they originated. According to that story, the ship had originated in the country of Turkey though the birds joined at a previous US port. In France they are called "d'inde" (from India) for similar reasons, according to the story.

Who knows the real story, but it's worth a discussion at the table when you need to change the subject. More trivia from Time.