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32 Bizarre and Fascinating Facts about Thanksgiving

By Queuebot in Everything Else on Nov 26, 2009 at 11:02 am


We all know about the Puritans and the Indians, and we love to stuff ourselves with turkey and cranberry sauce. But how much do you really know about this popular holiday? For instance:

Although the official proclamation was to celebrate Thanksgiving on every fourth Thursday of November, Franklin Delano Roosevelt actually changed the date to the third Thursday of March from 1939-1941. He made the change on the assumption that the economy would benefit from a longer holiday shopping season. Public outrage, however, soon changed that and Thanksgiving was back on schedule ever since.

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  1. xadrian
    Nov 26th, 2009 at 12:39 pm

    Did I read that right, that FDR tried to change it to the third week of MARCH to extend the shopping season? To what, 9 months?

  2. Yanqui Mike
    Nov 26th, 2009 at 2:27 pm

    Neatorama likes to play fast and loose with anything regarding Democrats.

    Of course, FDR didn't do anything like that. Don't you think our grandmothers would have told us?

    I think that neatorama knows that this is false.

  3. Johnny Cat
    Nov 26th, 2009 at 2:56 pm

    It was the third Thursday of November.
    http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/11/how_fdr_tried_to_make_than ksgi.html

  4. ted
    Nov 26th, 2009 at 7:20 pm

    March would make for a long holiday shopping season indeed.

  5. Yanqui Mike
    Nov 26th, 2009 at 8:13 pm

    Neatorama is the Fox News of miscellanea.

  6. pwscott
    Nov 26th, 2009 at 8:40 pm

    Glad I ate earlier. Now I'm stuffed with facts. :p

  7. nuiloa
    Nov 26th, 2009 at 8:44 pm

    Looks like March was a typo, that post has been fixed. It was the 3rd Thursday of November.

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